Word: grounds
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...folks" hardly means he's been born again as a "left-winger." The only reason he can pass for a champion of the working class is that the Democrats have abdicated that role. Bill Clinton never seriously tried to raise the minimum wage or otherwise level the ground separating worker and boss; and anyone who thinks Clinton got into office and then "lunged to the left" must have trouble getting their shoes on the right feet in the morning. If we have a two-party system anymore, it consists of a Clinton-Dole party of Big Business and, potentially...
...looks like they are now content to just continue to make temporary funding deals and put off the big, fundamental questions about restructuring government until after the November elections. As Sam Brownback told me today, 'Instead of going for the long bomb, let's grind it out on the ground.'" The next big hurdle for negotiators: reaching an agreement on extending federal borrowing authority past the March 1 deadline set by Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin. Markets and Congressional negotiators trembled Wednesday when Moody's threatened to downgrade its rating of $387 billion in U.S. bonds because it said the budget...
...most Republicans as too costly and ineffective. But it lives on in the hearts of defense contractors. "In fact, Star Wars never died," says TIME's Mark Thompson. "It went from butterfly to moth to larva to caterpillar; which means, basically, from weapons in space to weapons on the ground. And the Pentagon now talks about putting some sensors in space, creating a "thin" system that could stop five or ten missiles but not thwart a massive attack." Thompson says that Forbes may not be taking a big political risk in speaking up for some sort of anti-ballistic missile...
...three thirty in the morning before the commanding presence of an ancient pagan god stood sohdly on the ground, its nose perfectly chiselled and its heavy-set brow looming over the small men at its feet. The Faster Island god, weighing in at around the mass of a small car, was encased in ice and anchored to the ground. Cries of victory and epiphany flooded the night air and the creators, about half a dozen of them, sat on the ground and looked up in exhausted awe. The thing they created was greater than any of them...
...Good faith bargaining requires that the parties work together cooperatively to find common ground. Unfortunately, that hasn't been happening," he added...