Word: bypassers
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...Congress -- that have traditionally stood between the governors and the governed. The traditional way to achieve and wield power in America is to tame or charm or capture these institutions. Perot's genius was to realize that for the first time in history, technology makes it possible to bypass them. Win or lose, knowing or not, Perot is the harbinger of a new era of direct democracy...
...teledemocracy is supposed to work, according to Perot, the billionaire computer executive and putative presidential candidate. The concept has a certain gut-level appeal. To voters fed up with the paralysis of Congress and the special-interest outrages that characterize politics-as- usual, the idea that the citizenry might bypass all the musty machinery of representative democracy and directly influence the government seems enormously attractive...
...PEROT SEEMS to have an answer to the money=influence problem which he took advantage of during his career: Appeal to the people. Bypass the lobbyists and special interests. All laudable goals...
...three games left before the NCAA's. If we make the NCAA we'll bypass the ECAC's, but we've got a big weekend in front of us," senior Co-Captain Sarah Leary said...
...DIDN'T INDULGE IN HIGH-RISK OR HIGH-VOLUME sex. He didn't shoot drugs. Tennis superstar Arthur Ashe simply lay down on an operating table in 1983 to undergo heart-bypass surgery, and when he got up he had contracted HIV -- the AIDS virus...