Word: clintone
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Gandy called attention to the apparent double standard that exists in the media’s treatment of women either running for or serving in public office, with the majority of the night’s conversation focused on Hillary Clinton in the 2008 presidential primary elections...
Gandy pointed to the disparity of subject matter in criticism that Clinton faced in comparison to male politicians, citing the media’s repeated references throughout the election season to Clinton’s hair, voice, figure, and clothing...
...also cited the usage of specific diction in characterizing Clinton’s laugh and voice, including the denotation of Clinton being “cackling” and “shrill” as “completely gendered terms,” asking the audience when a man has ever been described as “shrill...
...fiscally prudent to keep temporarily fixing doctors' Medicare reimbursements by going deeper in debt, they argue the problem is more than a decade old and is not actually related to the current health-care reform debate. And indeed, the issue reaches all the way back to 1997, when President Clinton and a Republican Congress altered the complicated formula that dictates Medicare payments. At the time, the so-called sustainability growth rate (SGR) was depegged from inflation to wage growth. That was fine with doctors until the recession hit and wage growth ground to an abrupt halt, posing the threat...
...HILLARY CLINTON, U.S. Secretary of State, presiding over a Sept. 30 U.N. Security Council hearing on sexual violence against women...