Word: desk
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...replacement if the Gore/Lieberman ticket prevails. Lieberman hopes to have electoral laws rewritten so that a special election is held the year after a Senator steps down instead of waiting until the next general election year. Unsurprisingly, Rowland has promised to veto such a bill if it reaches his desk. Although this law might be a worthwhile reform under other circumstances, it is at this time a blatant attempt by Lieberman to manipulate electoral rules for his own benefit...
...weeks since a videotape and more than 100 pages of George W. Bush's debate-preparation material landed on the desk of one of Al Gore's closest advisers (who turned them over to the FBI), rumors and fabrications about who was behind the caper have whizzed between the campaigns and the press. The facts have been on holiday. Except at the FBI, where agents have been interviewing the handful of Bush aides who had access to the material. The one senior Bush adviser who hadn't been interviewed as of Saturday afternoon was chief campaign strategist Karl Rove. That...
...memorable afternoon in the House of Commons he sat at his desk while the Tories attacked him, and then, with exaggerated mouth movements, he responded almost silently: "Fuck off." In fury, the Tories appealed to the Speaker to discipline the prime minister, but the Speaker managed not to hear the insult. Trudeau did it again, turning slightly so the press gallery could be sure. He was not called to order. As in most things, he got away with...
...college graduate used to do." One example: a mortgage-loan applicant was once interviewed by "a trained loan officer with a college degree" who probably referred the application to a loan committee, which might have given an answer in two weeks. Today "you'd be sitting across the desk from somebody who was probably a teller two weeks ago, and she's reading the questions off a PC screen and typing the answers you give her. In five minutes you know whether you got the mortgage...
...spate of recent tax bills landing on President Clinton's desk, where they will die or have already died, offers a glimpse of what voters can expect under a Gore or Bush Administration next year. Bush supports the bills. He would eliminate the estate tax and marriage penalty and expand tax-deferred savings for everyone. Gore opposes them, preferring modest tax cuts targeted at middle- and lower-income households...