Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sunday talk shows. But he surely was influenced in his thinking about when to hold and when to fold by his assessment of the climate of opinion in the U.S. Relentless predictions of quagmire are partly self-fulfilling. The constant carpers and gloomy doomsters of the commentariat and Capitol Hill encouraged Milosevic to think America would fold first. Thus they prolonged the war and added to the human cost they claimed to deplore. Of course, this complaint could be used to discredit dissent in any war, and often has been. Aiding and comforting the enemy was a frequent charge against...
...Baumohl. "The steel unions are very powerful, and they really want these quotas. Gore ?- and Hillary too ?- is counting on union support to win, and Clinton?s opposition is going to make them angry." It already has. The United Steelworkers of America arranged to have steelworkers descend on the Capitol today for a rally, reminding lawmakers (and law-vetoers) that global trade can affect votes. Will the Senate put West Virginia before world affairs, and pass the quota bill (it passed the House overwhelmingly in March)? Or will the Man of Steel (formerly the Man of Jell-O) prevail...
...mayoral and gubernatorial races that have never included female candidates? And above all, if we've got more than half of the undergraduate degrees under our belts and will soon claim an overwhelming majority of the professional ones, what's the ladies room in that little domed building on Capitol Hill doing so empty...
...mayoral and gubernatorial races that have never included female candidates? And above all, if we've got more than half of the undergraduate degrees under our belts and will soon claim an overwhelming majority of the professional ones, what's the ladies room in that little domed building on Capitol Hill doing so empty...
...Case has that covered too. In the same week as his Microsoft deposition, the AOL boss took time out to appear on Capitol Hill to make an impassioned argument for government regulation in the cable-Internet industry. His pitch: the FCC needs to make sure that the little guys--which in his book include AOL--don't suffer if proprietorial cable services like AT&T's At Home or Time Warner's RoadRunner end up owning the online gateway. "It's a battle," Case said, "between good and evil." The FCC isn't entirely convinced, but it has agreed...