Word: hybrids
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...over six lunching reporters. Under the bright Hawaiian sun, waves lapping a few yards away, she began discussing the single- payer health care system, or the Canadian Plan, as it is sometimes known -- the more fully centralized approach favored by many liberals. Mrs. Clinton criticized it, and promoted the hybrid scheme that she said would finally be announced in the fall. "There's a lot to be said for crafting an American solution to an American problem," she said. "But I want people to know what the trade-offs...
Part of the problem is that trade talks always focus on desperately unexciting commodities; given the choice between reading about tariffs on nonferrous metals and, say, Julia Roberts' marriage, many people will skip the trade-barriers story. So here's an age-of-Clinton hybrid: movie stars and arcane trade issues, together in one convenient package...
...Senate Finance Committee Democrats -- managed a 50-to-49 victory in the full Senate. Earlier a G.O.P. alternative budget was defeated after a debate in which both sides pulled out Perot-style charts and pointers. The bill now goes to a House-Senate conference committee that will negotiate a hybrid version...
...long protest against it. The status of victim is not a passive blanket that you pull over yourself. You can always do something. Anyway, there's no such thing as a pure unmediated culture, any more than there's a pure unmediated self. All people, all cultures, are hybrid. I'm against essentialism. I'm against provincial nationalism. Yet people still insist on getting it wrong; they make the most absurd constructions on my work. It's not about saying imperialism was bad -- you don't need a book to tell you that." Not the least absurd is the idea...
...somewhat uneasy hybrid," he said. "The academic goals are the top of the mountain we wish to climb...the campaign priorities is how we're going to get there...