Word: actualizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gingrich declared war on his own party's President. In a stunning vote, 105 House Republicans sided with Gingrich to defeat the plan; only 71 voted with Bush. "I was astonished that they didn't understand we were the party of no taxes," Gingrich says. "I do think the actual fight was one of the saddest things I've ever been involved...
...IMPORTANCE THE PRESS HAS GIVEN TO Gingrich is, as of this moment, out of proportion to his actual accomplishment. It may prove to be justified, but right now it is vastly inflated. It's so inflated that if you look at Gingrich in the overall scope of American history or the American Congress, it bears little relationship to historical reality. He may want to be President, but what he is right now is a legislator. And the only measure of legislative leadership is legislation, the laws you get passed. Right now, Gingrich's sum total of realized accomplishment is minuscule...
...never are these chumps again, and if you do, they won't know that you used the word "simian" to describe them--or so you might think. In actual fact, this is the wrong way to approach the evaluation process. At the risk of dampening some of the fun, I'll explain...
...growth rates of these "Medigrants" from the current forecast of 10% yearly to 5%, with some states coming down to as little as 2% growth. On the positive side, the block grants limit the Federal Government's financial exposure to rising Medicaid costs. And the G.O.P. is not proposing actual cuts, but reductions in the rate of Medicaid's growth. Still, given the outlook for affected Americans, the Medicaid proposal has drawn harsh criticism from many, like Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber, a Democrat and a physician, who calls the withdrawal of guaranteed health coverage a "cynical political move" meant...
...Special Forces Underground, a clandestine group that publishes the Resister, a newsletter that espouses the extreme positions that proliferate among right-wing militias. In a recent policy statement, the Underground announced its opposition to "liberalism, altruism, internationalism, tribalism, democracy ... [and] the ideologies of all tyrannies." The role of actual soldiers in the newsletter is murky...