Word: bushed
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...reserved special scorn for members of his own party-including the frontrunner for the GOP nomination, Texas Gov. George W. Bush-who support continued Most Favored Nation (MFN) status for China...
China policy splits both parties, with Bush and many Republicans supporting the president's policy and some Democrats-including House Minority Leader Richard A. Gephardt (D-Mo.) and Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), another panelist at last week's forum-calling for restrictions on trade with China...
That is a sentiment that, in variation, finds a chorus of amens in almost every presidential campaign this year. In Texas, Governor George W. Bush says his proudest innovation is a program that allows welfare recipients to be given assistance from faith-based organizations. On Capitol Hill the concept has been championed by Republican John Kasich, another presidential contender. And former Senator Bill Bradley, Gore's only Democratic rival, has said that religious organizations are crucial to building a "civil society...
...these interests, the Clinton Administration is hardly the first to take off the security brake. It was Ronald Reagan who allowed U.S. satellites to be lofted into space by Chinese rockets after the Challenger blew up and Europe's aerospace company charged too much. Pressed by American satellite companies, Bush continued to approve still more launches even after sanctions were imposed for the 1989 Tiananmen massacre, and when Clinton came in eager to make trade a centerpiece of foreign policy, Big Business worked him to go further, faster. According to the report, the chiefs of Hughes and Loral, who together...
...says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "In '84 he generated a lot of publicity simply by refusing to say whether he would run for a second term even though it was obvious he would." To use a 2000 analogy, she'd rather be phantom front-runner George W. Bush than a sitting target like Al Gore -- especially since she doesn't even have an opponent yet. It also doesn't hurt that as long as she's undeclared, she can take Manhattan in Air Force One and do all her pre-campaign campaigning on the U.S. taxpayers' dime...