Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...become a reliable pattern in American politics that when the plumbing breaks down, the superintendents appear promptly to fix it. Progressives in the teens and '20s tried to clean up the electoral process with the secret ballot and the direct election of Senators. In the 1960s smoke-filled rooms gave way to primary beauty pageants, and after Watergate, big-money contributors had to form PACs instead of flushing money directly to their candidates. The avowed goal is always the same: to ensure communion between the voters and their leaders...
This year has brought a new call to clean the pipes because in this campaign, as in the ones before it, 30-sec. ads often seem to clog and sully the National Conversation. Last week the television networks were pushed into the arena with proposals to give candidates free, unfiltered access to the airwaves during the closing weeks of the race this fall. Their offers represented a victory for crusaders led by apostate journalist Paul Taylor and his coalition Free TV for Straight Talk, which has argued that the best way to counteract voter apathy and mounting cynicism...
...figure out if the students deserve sympathy or scorn, we need to look further than coarse categorizations of drugs and drug dealers. Were they disruptive influences in the community, whose own lives had been ruined by their drug use and were reaping huge profits selling drugs to otherwise clean students, making so much money they needed to use violence to protect their stash? Or were they two students who were part of a culture that accepted these drugs (both were known to enjoy raves; one even wrote his senior thesis on raves), and sold only to a few friends...
...personal ambition, to the point where dual-wage-earner families are now the norm. Yet somehow neither work nor the family has changed enough to make this a tenable situation. Day care is still catch as catch can. Employers still demand 110%, while spouses and children still need clean socks and a ride to the dentist. Add stagnating wages and layoff anxiety, and for millions of Americans, each week becomes a stressful triage between work and home that leaves them feeling guilty, exhausted and angry...
...multiple sclerosis. I would most certainly be using those resources even if I weren't handicapped. But I am, and shopping on the Net has become critical to the preservation of my independence and my energy. Now, if I could only get Bill Gates and his buddies to clean my house. MEG MCCANN Castro Valley, California