Word: bogeyman
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What do you do when a bogeyman simply refuses to act scary? That?s Defense Secretary Cohen?s dilemma, after a Defense Department assessment found -- to the chagrin of anti-Castro legislators -- that Cuba presents no military threat to the U.S. Cohen held back the report, due for release yesterday, so that it could be made ?more presentable,? as an aide...
...enemy was Bill Clinton and his 1,364-page plan to fix the health-care system. Three years after the death of that plan, things have changed so much that today Clinton could run the ad to make his own point. That's because there's a new bogeyman: managed care. "Clinton's bureaucrats aren't any different than managed-care-company bureaucrats," says Republican Representative Charlie Norwood of Georgia...
...turns out, you don't have to grow up in a postcard place these days to feel agreeable about the world as you find it. In a TIME/CNN survey of graduating seniors in 13 high schools along Highway 50, very few of them sounded like Marilyn Manson (rock bogeyman). A few of them sounded like the Brady Bunch (holy innocents). A lot of them reminded us of Lisa Simpson (cartoon goddess--aware of life's shadows, inclined to make for the light). Three-fourths hold the sobering belief that we are pulling apart as a nation rather than coming together...
...ongoing quest for an Internet bogeyman, pornography still gets the most ink, but gambling is where the action will be. Online betting--primarily through Websites that let you wager on sports events, enter lotteries and play casino games--is still in its infancy. Between $100 million and $200 million will be gambled online this year worldwide, says Whittier Law School professor and gaming-industry expert I. Nelson Rose. That's just a tiny portion of the national habit, of course. Americans legally hazarded an astonishing half a trillion dollars in 1995, earning the gaming industry profits of $44.4 billion--more...
...Recent polls show voters identifying more with the Democrats than with the Republicans, a remarkable change from this last January. Even with the spate of Democratic retirements, the Democrats stand a good chance of gaining back the House of Representatives. This off-year proved that using Newt as the bogeyman in campaign ads works. Next year, his face will be in every negative ad against the Republicans. Though he has had several missteps along the way, Clinton deserves credit for giving the Democratic Party a much-needed facelift as he moves the party to the center...