Word: supportiveness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...issues: tax cuts and education. By showing off his education-policy expertise, Bush hopes to lock in the advantage he has built over McCain with women voters. And by touting his plan to slash $483 billion in taxes over just five years, he believes he can solidify his support among traditional Republicans, especially those in tax-allergic New Hampshire, where Primary Day is just two weeks away. "There's a limited number of notes we can strike in the last few weeks of this campaign," says a top Bush adviser, "and tax cuts and education...
...aired television and radio ads in New Hampshire criticizing McCain for his stands on campaign-finance reform and other issues. McCain has accused Bush of having surrogates do his dirty work--a charge the Bush campaign has shrugged off as ridiculous. And in New York, where Bush has the support of Governor George Pataki and most of the state G.O.P., McCain is suing over the procedural hurdles he faces trying to get on the ballot for the March primary. "I am Luke Skywalker headed out from the Death Star," McCain told reporters last week. "I see the opening...
...before ferocious return fire drove them off. In Shali, hundreds of rebels brazenly encircled the Russian military commandant, demanding he hand over his troops' weapons and clear out. The Chechens blocked a base on the edge of the town, so when Russian armor tried to deploy in support of their comrades at headquarters, they were pinned down. In the ensuing melee, the Russians hit back with ground-to-ground missiles, and dozens of people were killed--raiders, according to the Russians; civilians, according to local residents...
Putin knows that the one thing that can kill public support for the war is body bags; they destroy his promise of a low-casualty victory. Though neither side is telling the truth, Russian casualties are plainly mounting fast and becoming harder to hide. Late last week the military admitted that 742 soldiers have died since Caucasus military operations began last August. Two weeks ago they acknowledged 465 dead. Even by those highly suspect statistics, Russia has suffered almost 190 deaths in the past two weeks. In fact, the total war tally is almost double the official figures, a source...
...company in the making. Case teaching Levin about instant messaging: the firm delivers 100 million e-mail messages a day--but more than a billion instant messages. Case argues that that's evidence of a whole new medium. Levin listens and suggests that it might be harnessed to support Time Warner products. An AOL techie points out that they can tell when popular programs come on TV by watching the network traffic fall as users log off. "You could use this to tell when it was time to kill a show," the techie suggests. "We can see when Friends' ratings...