Word: progressivity
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Clinton returned to Camp David on Sunday evening, July 23, he decided to plunge into assembly-line diplomacy, meeting with small teams of Palestinian and Israeli negotiators to tackle each issue. Scribbling on yellow pads, Clinton began losing even Berger and Albright in the details, but gradually he made progress. By 5 a.m. Monday, with CIA Director George Tenet at his side, he had the two sides tentatively agreeing on new Israeli security measures once land was transferred. Next he brought in the negotiating teams for refugees, then for borders...
Boies, not surprisingly, thinks Napster can and should win the case. He begins on an almost philosophical note: he complains that the entertainment industry has a knee-jerk instinct to try to stand in the way of technological progress. It's something the music industry has been accused of since 1908, when it went to the Supreme Court to argue, unsuccessfully, that its copyrights were being violated by player-piano rolls. More recently, in 1984, the movie studios went to the high court in an unsuccessful attempt to block Sony from selling VCRs. There's a pattern here, Napster...
...such things. And you see the occasional large, pathetic, flabby American sitting on a rock and gasping for breath, sweating off the Big Macs, thinking about coronary occlusion. There are moral fables everywhere you look. Despicable, whiny teenagers slouch along, and valiant geezers pass them. It's Pilgrim's Progress in real life...
...definition in a matchup that can seem to lack it, it sure beats "progress and prosperity" against "compassionate conservatism." But for Gore, who's already way behind on personality points, it may be a poor way to reach the slender middle that decides most national elections...
Keep in mind, of course, that environmental lobbyists with an eye on Detroit have had a frustrating decade; they're ready to embrace just about any progress with open arms. For years now, their concerns have been ignored by auto executives who insisted there was no way to improve fuel efficiency and still give consumers the cars they want. The rise of sport utility vehicles only served to exacerbate the tensions between the industry and its fiercest detractors. But now that Ford, ironically once one of the movement's most hated adversaries (think of the Expedition), has made good...