Word: pose
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Greenspan is also a Republican and a free-marketer, and he told Congress that he prefers tax cuts to new programs, as long as they don't flood a thriving economy with cash and pose an inflation risk. (By his own job description, Greenspan's main obsession is fighting inflation.) But Greenspan is fully aware that this business cycle, even in its current flattened form, is closer to the trough than the apex, and that's largely his doing. Tax cuts may not be the answer to the slowdown, but they probably wouldn't hurt...
Daschle is keeping an eye on Breaux, who is trying to forge a bipartisan voting bloc called the Senate Centrist Coalition, one of many moderate groups now springing up like mushrooms after a Florida rain. Breaux could pose a threat to Daschle's Democratic unity and to his status as the ultimate go-to Democrat in the Senate--a role Daschle has no intention of relinquishing. "Unless President-elect Bush can develop a working relationship with Tom, he's not going to get a lot out of the Democrats," says New Mexico Democratic Senator Jeff Bingaman. That's the message...
...post-election madness focused out of necessity on the interpreting of votes, and there the voters have a responsibility too. Does the Votomatic really pose such an obstacle? However a voter made up his mind, however much attention he paid, is it unreasonable to ask him to perform a few simple tasks, hopefully culminating in an understanding of why a punch card works best when it's punched...
...attain Good Guy status at Harvard is to suffer some egregious affront--oftentimes in the form of a failed election attempt or an unfulfilled goal. As such, we fill our void of Good Guys with an overflowing reserve of Martyrs. Martyrs, after all, are safe to praise. They pose no threat to our own ambition, we can safely embrace them with compassion and bemoan the injustices that have been committed against them--and maybe, hopefully, regret and reflect upon our own compromised values...
...supporters. Gore's supporters. Democrats in Texas. Democrats in Washington. His late friend and mentor Bob Bullock. These were familiar notes from before Nov. 7 - the uniter, not the divider. And Wednesday night, in his final victory speech of the five weeks that came afterward, Bush struck the pose of the hopeful innocent, ready to heal the nation and its capital with a gentle hand for every shoulder...