Word: progressivity
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...exactly. Gore's latest self-makeover predates Daley by at least a week. It's the "prosperity and progress tour," which, like many of Gore's slogans, doesn't roll off the tongue as well as it could. But it plays to the strengths of the sort-of incumbent. Gore will highlight, again and again, the booming economy and skyrocketing surpluses and insist he's got wiser ways to spend the dough than Bush. Safer ways to save Social Security and Medicare. A better, targeted tax cut - targeted being the operative word, as opposed to Bush insistence on an across...
...been a big week for Al Gore. He lost one campaign manager, the combative Tony Coelho, and replaced him with the smoother Bill Daley. Adopting the slogan "Progress and Prosperity," he also changed the focus of his campaign to better remind people of the near-eight bountiful years he has presided in the White House with Bill Clinton. At the end of this busy week, Gore sat down with with TIME Washington correspondent Karen Tumulty, lounging on a wicker chair on the wraparound porch of the VP's official residence in Washington. Birds chirping. Dog Daisy at his feet...
...when people try to describe campaigns that obscures as much as it reveals. You've heard a lot of my speeches in the last year, and you probably haven't heard a single one that hasn't been dominated by a lengthy discussion of our prosperity and the progress we've made in the last eight years...
...whose neighborly relations are still defined by a cease-fire agreement rather than any mutual recognition treaty. After all, while there are grounds for optimism on areas such as allowing family reunions across that cease-fire line and economic aid from the prosperous South to the famine-stricken North, progress may be slower when President Kim urges his host to curb a missile program that has put North Korea at the top of Washington's "rogue state" charts, and when Dear Leader Kim suggests that his guest get rid of the 30,000 U.S. troops dug in along the cease...
...anyone else's card) because they're under considerable pressure not to. In a class action lawsuit distinct from the DOJ case, 4 million retailers have joined in a suit against the companies, charging undue market control. Visa and MasterCard have a lot to lose as these cases progress: At the moment, the companies are on the take at both ends, charging credit card customers sky-high interest rates and leveling a sizable usage charge against retailers. Of course, if the store owners decline to take credit cards, they stand to lose considerable business from a public that has come...