Word: pressing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Only 45 percent of respondents nationwide were aware when their state's contest would be held within the week, according to the poll, which is sponsored by the Joan Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics and Public Policy...
...sometimes take it for granted that citizens will at least know when an election is being held, but that assumption clearly is not warranted," said Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press Thomas E. Patterson...
...White House, of course, had long scoffed at that, accusing Starr of leaking anything and everything in order to jolt the press into keeping his Clinton hunt politically viable. Starr also vehemently denied responsibility for the leaks, and later turned the legal lamplight on Bakaly himself, referring him to the Justice Department for investigation. Bakaly resigned soon after...
...face of such attacks, Venter remains serenely optimistic. "Imagine the infinitesimally small odds of ending up in such a privileged position," he tells a visitor to his airy, press-clipping-decorated office at Celera's Rockville, Md., headquarters, just a Metro ride away from his NIH rivals, "of making these discoveries and trying to help guide and impact medicine." Sure, he admits, the criticism "gets painful at times," but, he adds, "I wouldn't trade what I'm doing for anything...
...sensationalist press was in lurid bloom. The Know-Nothing party flourished on nativist paranoias and disgust with immigrants. In a prose tract called "The Eighteenth Presidency!", Whitman referred to politicians as "pimps," "excrement," and "serpentine men." Slavery had the sanction...