Word: clintonism
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...midst of the Civil War. "We don't have the luxury of choosing between getting our economy moving now and rebuilding it over the long term." The political strategy of the Administration can be summed up in a motto: "Never waste a good crisis," as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton put it. That phrase has been the rallying cry of the Obama team for months. But it increasingly appears that the Administration was unprepared for both the severity of the recession and the political resistance to trying to do so much at once. And so the Obama team is coming...
...will be the effect.” But Farrell was not cautious in condemning the Bush administration for its relationship with science, saying that “the previous administration just ignored or put off science” because of an agenda that was economically and morally motivated. The Clinton administration did very little with regard to science as well, said James G. Anderson, professor of atmospheric chemistry, arguing that the Clinton administration, while more open to science philosophically, in practice did not develop the infrastructure needed for energy and climate change research. Obama, Anderson believes, will be different because...
...Hamburg's career has focused on public health, bio-defense and disease control, and New Yorkers credit her with a substantial reduction in tuberculosis rates and increase in childhood immunizations during her tenure. She later served as an assistant health secretary in the Clinton administration, and she's currently a top scientist at the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a group founded by Ted Turner to reduce the danger posed by "loose nukes" and other weapons of mass destruction...
...Turned down an offer to be President Clinton's first federal AIDS coordinator in 1993 as she was expecting her first child. Four years later, she accepted a senior position in the Department of Health and Human Services...
...Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and China's Foreign Minister, Yang Jiechi, both agreed on Wednesday that China and the U.S. should work to ensure that incidents like Sunday's showdown in the South China Sea "do not happen again." The incident in question involved several Chinese naval vessels harassing a U.S. surveillance ship off the island of Hainan. But despite the soothing words of the two top diplomats, it's a safe bet that more such incidents can be expected in the future. The Pentagon was quick to note that the mariners aboard the U.S.N.S. Impeccable were civilians working...