Word: edict
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Despite a mammoth war chest and an (albeit fading) air of invincibility, George W. Bush still understands the famous Tip O'Neill edict: "All politics is local." In Dubya's case, as local as your PC. On Monday, the Bush camp announced that it will be targeting web sites likely to be used by GOP primary voters in Iowa and New Hampshire, and in the coming weeks will festoon them with banner ads. GOP rival John McCain previously experimented with banners, but not at the same level of marketing sophistication - Bush's people cross-referenced lists of registered Republican...
...franchise owners to switch to the Carl Saganesque "billions and billions." I didn't buy one word of it. So I stopped at my McDonald's on 34th Street in Manhattan, which has a 99 BILLION SERVED sign. Manager Eddie Correa said he was unfamiliar with the Biennial Edict and hadn't thought about changing the sign during his two years with the company. Dissatisfied, I ate a double cheeseburger...
...Microsoft resorted to "predatory" behavior in an attempt to log competitors out of the market? One would think so, especially since the crux of His Majesty's edict is that "Microsoft effectively eliminated Netscape as a platform threat." But the charge holds up only in virtual reality, at best. Netscape still enjoys a comfortable 42 percent of the browser market and that figure will increase to a snugly hegemonic 58 percent after its acquisition by AOL is complete. Then again, Jackson's understanding of the word "eliminate" could just be more rich and nuanced than Webster...
Despite the edict, one room has already been booked. The guest? Former President George Bush. He was in Philly giving a speech and asked for the $1,400-a-night Presidential Suite at the Rittenhouse Hotel. Who could say no? Not David Benton, the tony hostelry's general manager, who has been taking "tongue-in-cheek flak" from his competitors ever since. But the rule that no rooms can be booked still stands, says Rendell, unless "the person asking to book the room is a former President whose son is the leading contender...
...Biema. "Now, instead of just handing over some cash to shave years off your time in purgatory, you enter into a healing process with God after confessing to a sin." So tossing those cigarettes now qualifies as a spiritual act? Van Biema acknowledges that the Vatican anti-smoking edict may "elicit a few giggles," but he believes it could be a boon to the Vatican. "If the curiosity surrounding this new proclamation calls attention to the processes of confession and receiving indulgences, the church will have been successful," he says. Still unanswered: Does this mean that Catholic smokers who live...