Word: washingtonization
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...public did its best to ignore two presidential candidates, George W. Bush and Al Gore, who insisted there were big issues at stake. Instead of paying attention to them, most folks watched some fascinating scenes roll past: thousands of anti-globalization protesters disrupting a World Bank conference in Washington; Ford and Firestone executives blaming one another for a string of auto fatalities; Bill Clinton taking a last, slow lap around the presidential track as his wife Hillary Rodham Clinton made her first successful run for public office. Finally, the presidential campaign that everyone thought was boring suddenly became...
When delegates to the International Monetary Fund and World Bank conference arrived in Washington, D.C., for an April gathering, they were met with the same taunts that had greeted conventioneers at the World Trade Organization talks in Seattle the previous December. Some called them protesters (there were between 10,000 and 35,000 of them in D.C., depending on whose estimate was believed); others called them anarchists. Under either name, their gripe was globalization: the enrichment of multinational corporations at the expense of the environment and the poor. An affiliation of activist organizations coalescing as the Mobilization for Global Justice...
...there were also, in the year 2000, signs of greater awareness. Linked by the Internet, hundreds of millions of people rallied for the cause of conservation on the 30th anniversary of Earth Day. Governments from Washington to Lima took steps to protect large wilderness areas from development. Progress was made toward using more renewable energy from the wind and the sun, and new hybrid cars that used both gasoline and electricity sported impressive fuel-economy statistics...
...persuade him that Congress would simply spend the surplus before it can be used for bill paying. And George W., whose father had notoriously frosty relations with Greenspan, has gone out of his way to court the chairman. A few weeks ago, after their get-acquainted meeting in Washington, he even squeezed the uncomfortable-looking Greenspan on camera. But when you start talking like the bears, as Bush has been doing, maybe bear hugs are just what come naturally...
...true Bush style, he's not eager to press the hot-buttons - Thompson has avoided beating the drum on divisive issues during four terms in Wisconsin and would appear to have no inclination to start doing so in Washington. He's widely respected and a cinch for confirmation...