Word: righting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...IMPACT: Abortion will most likely remain a constitutional right, and future legislative restrictions on abortion could be struck down. Affirmative action will probably remain legal, and the court will be more likely to recognize homosexual rights. Federal power may be allowed to broaden, permitting laws that tighten gun control, expand environmental protections and monitor food and drug production. HEALTH CARE GEORGE W. BUSH AL GORE...
...what readers or viewers might want or need to know. And because reporters tend not to be the most original folks, they're afraid of getting either too far ahead or too far behind. That's why, if things are going wrong with your campaign, you've got to right it lickety-split. In two days the media horde can undo strategies that took months to create...
...news, but she had a civics-class feeling about it. She thought all this information was important somehow because times were heavy, so she worked holidays and waited on doorsteps for those who didn't return calls. She thought that to get on air you had to get it right and be fair. That seems quaint...
...Even more old-fashioned is that for all her hard squints into the typewriter to get the story right, she made the Big Bargain. She could breeze through the halls of power, even in her 20s, and she could phone the President because - paging Dr. Freud - she was beautiful. And she knew how to work her beauty as well as her stopwatch. Just listen to one of the letters to her parents about the events lined up for the week ahead. "Monday I will be with Senator Scoop Jackson for dinner. Tuesday Senator Keating has invited me to a party...
...late-night comedy and water-cooler banter, the only people who are not supposed to disparage politicians are their opponents. There seems to be little distinction between underhanded smears and hard, defensible attacks, only a growing consensus that making the basic argument of a campaign - that I am the right choice and my opponent the wrong one - is somehow dirty pool...