Word: control
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...easy political pickup for him at little political cost -- and with solid appeal to some of his more liberal constituencies. "Clinton knows Republicans can't spend much time screaming about this," says Dickerson, "especially when they've just come off two weeks of self-immolation on gun control...
Netanyahu's once solid lead among the Russians began to unravel the moment Sharansky's immigrant party, Yisrael Ba'aliya, unveiled its TV ads. They steadfastly focused on winning control of the Interior Ministry, which determines who can immigrate to Israel and with what rights. The ultra-Orthodox have long controlled the ministry, notoriously harassing Russian immigrants by questioning their Jewish bona fides...
...Senate was debating a juvenile-crime bill. Then the bulletins flashed across TV screens, we were back in the helicopter over yet another school, more running children, fluttering yellow crime tape, flushed sheriffs, nodding anchormen. We didn't know what it would take to pass the first modest gun-control provision in five years...
...over you on daytime TV. It didn't get any better for the N.R.A. the next day, when the news broke that a Georgia student had opened fire on his schoolmates on the one-month anniversary of the Littleton tragedy. Hours later the Senate approved the most significant gun-control proposals in six years, including a measure to require background checks for buyers at gun shows...
However, while pro-gun control Senators like Charles Schumer of New York argue that "the momentum has shifted" in favor of gun control, Democrats behind the scenes aren't so sure. "That's manure," said a leading House Democratic staff member. He and others haven't forgotten how in 1994 the N.R.A. knocked out two of the party's giants, Speaker Tom Foley and Judiciary Committee chairman Jack Brooks, over their support for the assault-weapons ban. And they note that rural, pro-gun districts have more clout in the House. Then there's the N.R.A.'s well-funded...