Word: drift
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...outcome still showed a public divided, it produced a government somewhat less so. Thanks to their sweeping victories Tuesday, the Republicans ensured that the very real challenges facing Bush in a second term--from Iraq as it heads toward elections, to entitlements as they drift toward insolvency, to Supreme Court appointments and the social issues that most deeply divide the public--would be addressed by a party with a rare monopoly of power in all three branches of government and a mandate, however slim, that did not exist four years ago. All of which points to the great mystery ahead...
...could count on Bill Clinton to run late, even when he was awaiting heart surgery. Hours after word spread that Clinton was being rushed to the hospital for emergency bypass surgery, Kerry telephoned him to wish him luck, and Clinton, alarmed at the drift of Kerry's campaign, suggested they make some time over the weekend to have a serious talk. The two made the connection around 10 p.m. the next day, a Saturday, an hour behind schedule. By the time they finished--Clinton mostly talking and Kerry mostly listening--it was nearly midnight. One message stuck...
...country's most important issue, 74% voted for Kerry. The American conservatives - whose policies have helped push global attitudes toward the U.S. to an all-time low - have won again. To Europe, that suggests that the mutual disdain will continue, and that Europe and the U.S. are bound to drift further apart, even if their size and importance condemn them to keep doing business together. "There is in fact a certain degree of astonishment," says Gernot Erler, foreign-policy spokesman for Germany's ruling Social Democrats. "If a German Chancellor were to take the country to war on reasons that...
...Other times, the cameraman is a sort of character, scurrying to catch up with the action. Or trying not to. In an upcoming episode, says creator Mitchell Hurwitz, Lucille starts making out with Oscar in an effort to make his brother jealous. "The cameraman starts to drift away, like he doesn't want to see it," Hurwitz says. "Then another character comes in, and he has to go back...
Which candidate is better equipped to deal with such threats? In attempting to draw a contrast with Kerry, Bush likes to say, "If America shows uncertainty or weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy." Yet both candidates have shifted course on many major foreign policy issues, ultimately arriving at positions that resemble each other's more than either man likes to admit. But if both have shown a capacity to alter their policies, both cling to disparate world views. The problem is that neither man's philosophy on its own is entirely satisfying in the wake...