Word: bootstrapping
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Demel and his government adversaries are both struggling under a legacy of neglect for agriculture that began with Operation Bootstrap in the 1950s, when the commonwealth began steering its economy away from almost total dependence on sugar cane toward a more diversified industrial base in electronics and light manufacturing. Some observers believe that the island's agriculture is still wedded psychologically to sugar and is not truly interested in any other crop. Says Fernando Santiago, operator of a 600-acre farm in Santa Isabel: "Agriculture doesn't believe in vegetables...
Each campaign puts biography to different use: Clark's and Kerry's heroic tales show all they ways they are better than us. Edwards' bootstrap story shows how he is just like us. Only Dean dared to design a whole strategy around the idea that the personal was not political. Rejecting the rituals of revelation, he adamantly refused to talk about himself, his family, his faith journey, his heartwarming moments as a doctor. Some of this was camouflage: the tribune of the common man who grew up on Park Avenue and went to prep school. During one debate, Dean talked...
...Nonetheless, at the convention's closing ceremony last Saturday, the normally steely Mahathir burst into tears, announced he was quitting all his posts and was escorted offstage. The 76-year-old had spent the convention bemoaning the laziness of the country's Malay population, which he's tried to bootstrap into prosperity for two decades. Luckily, his party rejected the resignation. Of course, UMNO needs Mahathir, fair mood or foul: the PM is expected to call a general election next year and without the old man, the party cadre could be weeping...
...Microsoft. The ruling that Microsoft is a monopoly could open the floodgates to civil suits by companies, and even consumers, who have been harmed by Microsoft's anticompetitive activities. Proving that a company is a monopoly is an onerous legal task, and private litigants may now be able to bootstrap their cases onto last week's findings...
...national bid. The specifics of that plan - $8 billion in new federal spending for use by charities and churches - are remarkably similar to those of the blueprint the President announced Monday. Even the idea of allowing religious groups to bid on government contracts to provide job training and other "bootstrap" services has been around for a while - thanks to Senator John Ashcroft, who insisted that just such a provision be inserted in the 1996 welfare reform bill...