Word: split
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That would mean Democratic chairmen for some committees, Democratic vice chairmen for others and an even split on committee assignments--which would strip the Republicans of their power to control committee votes and thus legislation. It would also mean a hand in deciding everything from floor procedures and staff assignments to office space. In other words, Daschle was asking majority leader Trent Lott to make him an extra set of the keys to the castle. "You don't start off by being critical of what any other leader says," Lott told TIME, "but I don't think that's going...
...rest of us woke up Wednesday morning not knowing who would be the next leader of the free world, not knowing when we would know, not knowing if the eventual winner would be able to govern with a Senate split down the middle and a teeny Republican edge in the House and a nation so neatly and clearly and evenly divided that it would take a pair of tweezers to find a mandate in the results. Neither side even tried...
...during this heated election year, as Lott and Daschle clashed publicly on the floor of the Senate. "It's the least productive, most frustrating Congress that I have experienced," Daschle complained last month. Of course, it may be nothing compared with what he will face if the Senate is split 50-50 between Democrats and Republicans. Anticipating that possibility, Daschle last week proposed a brazenly optimistic power-sharing plan in which both parties would co-chair committees...
...shame because investors can really make a killing in bust-ups. I'm not talking about AT&T, by the way. That's a bust-up with problems, not the least being that it will take a numbing two years to get done. But Ma Bell's latest split makes the subject topical, especially with WorldCom's having just announced a split as well. I'm not talking about letter stocks either. Those are bust-ups in name only. Management of companies with a tracking stock still answer to the parent's boss. What's the point...
Where is that new President of ours? I know he's here someplace. Now you see him, now you don't. The presidential election terminating the Clinton years ends in the ultimate Clintonism--an astonishing tie, a masterpiece of delicately balanced ambivalence. We end by looking at a split screen, like one of those old campaign buttons that shows you one image (Gore) if you look at it from one angle and a different image (Bush) if you tilt it slightly. I seem to see Clinton enter smilingly upon the chaotic scene: "Say, if y'all can't make...