Word: hooverism
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...wrong at its core. I think that our foreign policy, based on an openly proclaimed intention to dominate the world, is a recipe for getting our country in some of the worst trouble it's ever been in." Bush, Gore says, has compiled the worst economic record since Herbert Hoover. "For Democrats to lose the Senate and to lose ground in the House means that we have got to examine what we could have done more effectively as a party. I think it's the time now for us to be a loyal opposition, not just in name...
Rumors of ESPN coming to the game began swirling around Harvard’s athletic department early last week after Ivy League sports information director Bret Hoover contacted ESPN inviting the show to the game...
...Monday ESPN told me it was unlikely. On Tuesday they said we were on the radar,” Hoover said. “But Wednesday ESPN told me that if both Harvard and Penn won they would be in Pennsylvania on the 16th of November...
That afternoon, ESPN made its final decision—they called Hoover from their set-up at the Tennessee-Miami game to deliver the confirmation...
Among cops and other law enforcers, there are sharp divisions too. Some, like Joseph D. McNamara, a former San Jose police chief and now a Hoover Institution fellow, call for an end to the criminalization of marijuana. "Most of the police officers I hired during the 15 years I was police chief had tried it," says McNamara. Like many pot legalizers, he believes the system, which he says arrests more people for marijuana than for any other drug, is racist. "Ninety million Americans have tried marijuana. When you look at who's going to jail, it is overwhelmingly disproportionate...