Word: ditto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...powers of speech -- which he couldn't exercise until he reluctantly agreed to endorse the Clinton ticket. Mario Cuomo, who for months had sniped at Clinton from the sidelines, preached some old-time Democratic religion while blessing a ticket with postliberal views on welfare (too generous) and government spending (ditto). Even Jerry Brown couldn't throw a wrench into the works, though he and his cantankerous supporters tried. When he finally spoke on Wednesday night, his sulfurous podium performance included no endorsement of his party's ticket. Maybe it was resentful party regulars who arranged to have Brown leave...
Bush has watched cities decline into poverty and violence with no national funding and leadership to help. His education proposals came late and lacked the requisite funding--ditto for his bare-bones health care "policy." He has tightened the definition of wetlands and threatened to authorize off-shore drilling. He has nominated right-wingers to the Supreme Court who will try to overturn Roe v. Wade this summer...
THERE ARE OTHER issues that the Democrats can exploit, but these are the top ones. The deteriorating educational system is a fair attack on the "education President," but it's unclear how much Americans care about education. Ditto for the environment. The budget deficit is a traditional attack, but it doesn't stir up passion, either. Emphasizing crime, gun control, taxes, abortion and the economy is the best...
Finally, the plan will take unfair advantage of the fears of Hong Kong Chinese seeking new homes before Britain returns control of the city to China in 1997. Ditto for East Europeans fleeing the ethnic turmoil sparked by the death of communism...
...spun records and made with the cute chatter under a couple of pseudonyms until he decided the medium would never give him a sense of self-respect. In 1979 he joined the Kansas City Royals as promotion director, where he made many friends (George Brett wears a DITTO T shirt at batting practice) but was still restless. "In 1982," he recalls, "I was looking at a $35,000-a-year job selling potato chips in Liberty, Mo., as Nirvana. But I didn't get the job." Nothing to do but go back to radio, this time in the burgeoning field...