Word: bedrocks
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...House seats and three Senate seats--and in the unlikely elevation of a peanut farmer and Washington outsider named Jimmy Carter to the Presidency two years later. In the long term, however, Watergate proved to be more of a boon for Republicans as it helped convince Americans of a bedrock conservative tenet: government is not to be trusted, the people in power in Washington are up to no good. When President Reagan told us in his 1981 Inaugural Address that "government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem," it was the memory of Watergate that...
There's plenty of old evidence laying out Saddam's suspected arsenal of biological, chemical and nuclear weapons that has for years formed the bedrock of the case against Iraq. Inspectors who searched for eight years after the Gulf War left a well-documented file of banned items they were pretty sure existed but they couldn't find or couldn't prove were destroyed. Those are still missing and remain a central concern (see chart). But the trouble from the public relations perspective is precisely that that evidence is familiar and that it has already been judged by many...
...flew from his home in Berlin to visit the site. He descended into "the bathtub," the vast concrete basin in which the foundations of both towers once rested. As the street-level sounds of the city fell away, the primeval depths of Manhattan filled his view. "At that bedrock level you can see the indelible traces of the towers," says Libeskind. "These were walls that had withstood the trauma of the attack. I thought to myself, There is something very significant here--the voice of the site itself...
...wealthy the biggest beneficiaries of the cuts, Bush is willing to face down accusations of class warfare. In its willingness to risk cranking up the deficit to record levels, the Bush team is repudiating a decade-long Republican fixation on balanced budgets as well as the Clinton Administration's bedrock belief that big deficits lead to higher interest rates and hurt long-term growth. And in focusing on economic expansion in 2004 rather than short-term stimulus now, Bush may imperil an already jobless recovery...
...interracial dating. He has hobnobbed with thinly veiled white-supremacist groups. It took several attempts last week before he could manage to say that segregation is immoral. Everything Lott has done and said in his career suggests he doesn't view the civil rights movement as a vital bedrock of modern America. This moral and political blindness does not preclude him from being a Senator. But it can and should preclude him from being a leader of a modern political party...