Word: shorting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...leaving the federal district has begun to rival that of old-fashioned commuters heading downtown. In the past year alone, commuters admit, the drive time has increased 50%. Traffic is so bad that the Washington region ranks second only to Los Angeles in severity of snarls. The area is short on roads, bridges, ramps--everything but cars. Local police have begun to complain that well-heeled commuters blithely invade high-occupancy-vehicle lanes to save time; the $50 ticket doesn't slow many of these folks down. Traffic, says the NVTC's Backus, "is by far our biggest problem...
...resistance to repeal has deep populist roots that are hard to dig out. And there is no point denying it: repealing the estate tax would benefit the superrich. Short of communism, any plan to get rid of a tax that many see as immoral is bound to help billionaires. So what? The barrels of ink spilled on this point miss the mark...
Everybody had a short list for Al Gore's running mate last week. Gore himself walked the beaches of Figure Eight Island, N.C., mulling his options and making up his mind. But 400 miles away in Philadelphia, George W. Bush made the decision for him. He picked Bill Clinton. "Our current President embodied the potential of a generation," the Republican nominee said Thursday night in his convention speech. "So many talents. So much charm. Such great skill...So much promise...Instead of seizing this moment, the Clinton-Gore Administration has squandered it...And now they come asking for another chance...
...same time, their short list suggests that Gore's handlers were also concerned to stanch the bleeding on their left flank, where Ralph Nader may prove to be more than simply a gadfly. And while Lieberman's hawkish positions on defense haven't exactly endeared him to the Democratic party left, he's tended to vote with liberals on taxes, abortion, gun control and other social issues. He's a moved-to-the-center kind of liberal with a reputation for integrity, and relatively straight-shooting. The Democrats are spinning it as a bold move to grab the center, citing...
Papers take a day to set up veep's veep day Tuesday, and press needles are lurching toward G. The NYT holds a dignified pep rally: Bill Daley, suddenly, "in his short time here... seems to have significantly revived the once flagging morale of the Democratic campaign, both in Nashville and beyond." Gimme an A, Kevin Sack. WP leads section with another in "The Life of Al Gore" series - a Nakashima/Maraniss tale of Gore's near-obsessive responsiveness to his Tennessee constituents...