Word: beltways
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Back at the residence, they summoned Eskew and roused Gore's new chief of staff, Charles Burson, from bed. Gore wanted to move the campaign to Nashville, Tenn. Setting up his headquarters on K Street in Washington had been a huge mistake--a symbol of a clueless inside-the-Beltway campaign. But the problem was that no one knew how to get out of the two-year, $60,000-a-month lease. That didn't matter, Gore said; they had to move and shed staff on the way. He was ready with a biblical allusion, the admonition...
Peter Beinart's article "Will Politicians Matter?" suggests that Americans are returning to a broader and more traditional definition of politics as something that takes place in all walks of civic life, not merely inside the Beltway and the ballot booth. Such a concept seems to be closer to what Aristotle and other ancient philosophers, who viewed politics as applied ethics, had in mind. To the extent that we consider ourselves citizens, we must become politicians in the oldest and widest sense of the word--not only by voting and running for office but also by participating in the fast...
...strength of the two-party system and the bane of third parties is this: the big parties co-opt the little parties' ideas. REAGAN adopted the anti-Beltway resentments of populist GEORGE WALLACE as surely as F.D.R. waylaid the assaults of socialist NORMAN THOMAS. This year, reform belongs not to Reform but to McCain, whom Ventura might even endorse. It certainly means less theater. And while that's less...
...decision to transplant his headquarters from downtown Washington to Nashville, Tennessee. But just as important was the quieter move of the campaign's central nervous system to another D.C. address, the Wisconsin Avenue consulting firm of Bob Shrum, Mike Donilon and Tad Devine, whose offices serve as Eskew's Beltway base of operation, complete with an exercise bike for the workout fanatic. Also pitching in is Bill Knapp, who wrote some of Clinton's 1996 advertising...
...World Records suffix 40 Banned apple spray 43 ___ Arens, a vocal opponent of Barak's peace policy 44 Forearm bones 45 Supermodel Campbell 46 Photographer Adams 48 Social misfit 50 Reagan was its pres. 51 Boxing promoter King 52 Shelley specialty 54 Out of date: abbr. 55 Inside-the-Beltway figure...