Word: jettisoning
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Most of the people I’ve spoken to since Nov. 2 don’t say we need to jettison core values to win rural America. The problem, they say, is not substance, but tone. Democrats, they say, are arrogant. But I think it’s a little disrespectful to suggest that rural Americans voted for Bush because Democrats sounded snobby. Rural Americans aren’t angry because Democrats support equal rights with a certain tone. They’re angry because we support equal rights. And even if our nominee runs away from social liberalism...
...deadline. The law, he says, "enables Americans to perform a simple but significant act of patriotism every time they visit the grocery store." On the other side, Representative Charles Stenholm, a Democrat from Texas, mindful of Lone Star State feedlots that import Mexican cows, is co-sponsoring legislation to jettison mandatory labeling in favor of a voluntary system. That bill is backed by the four processors--Tyson Foods, Swift & Co., Cargill and National Beef Packing Co.--that control 81% of the nation's cattle market. They argue that foreign governments could retaliate for any labeling law by blocking American produce...
...could get the Taliban where it hurts." She is said to be galled by Clarke's critical comments because, say Rice associates, she went out of her way to keep the career aide in a top-tier position, against the advice of Administration officials who thought she should jettison someone so cozy with the Clinton national-security team...
...oversimplified economic argument is that it reduces human life and labor to commodities. Empire brings wealth—but to whom, and how is it shared? What is the “value” of wealth if it is not gotten in a free society? Can we jettison freedom and equality, old-fashioned virtues as they are? What aspects of humanity get shoved aside in the pursuit of empire? History is important because it shows that society cannot be reduced to those terms; history is not—as Ferguson suggested—reducible...
...Saturday brought out Kennedy (who finished second in the 1980 Iowa caucuses, challenging Jimmy Carter) to campaign with him in Davenport, Dubuque and Cedar Rapids. Kerry's speeches have become shorter and more passionate. For Kerry, Iowa seemed to ignite the fire in his belly while getting him to jettison the drowsy Senate-speak he was using only a few months ago. Public polls have moved a bit, and the internal numbers "have the right feel," an aide says. Some of his gains are probably coming from Dean's share of the vote. Paradoxically, Dean has an interest in seeing...