Word: america
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...fact that the labor and mainstream environmental groups that Clinton in 1982 would have counted among his natural allies are now moved to mount the biggest protests America has seen since the Vietnam War speaks volumes about the politics of the Clinton era. The centerpiece of the President's "Third Way" or "New Democrat" ideology was to challenge the Republicans' traditional monopoly on being the party of business. The Clinton administration may have have blown hot and then cold on its liberal advocates over the past seven years, but its bottom line has consistently been the bottom line of America...
...While Clinton promised American voters that he'd end "politics as usual," he quietly went off to Wall Street and assured the corporate pooh-bahs that he'd protect and expand business-as-usual. He promised to safeguard and open up markets for corporate America, run a fiscally tight ship and prepare the nation's workforce and corporations to win the globalization game...
...course he's had no trouble convincing corporate America to sign on to that idea, but he's struggled elsewhere. His tussle with labor organizations over the NAFTA agreement resulted in many Democrats on Capitol Hill colluding with Republicans in stripping Clinton of his right to negotiate "fast-track" trade agreements. He's increasingly faced opposition on both sides of the aisle to free trade policies, which have left him vulnerable to populist attack. "Pat Buchanan complains that both parties are now too pro-business, and that resonates with some people," says Branegan. Because as Seattle showed, there are many...
...corporate prosperity of the Clinton era has been accompanied by an unparalleled growth in American cynicism - and outright hostility - toward Washington's political class. But the Seattle demonstrations - and the political shock wave they sent around America - showed that passive cynicism may be giving way to active outrage...
Operating since the fall of 1781, Alpha Iota is the oldest continuously operating Phi Beta Kappa chapter in America...