Word: jimming
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...democracy. The Republican strategy is simple: focus on the really important issues like flag burning and gay marriage and keep accusing the Democrats of wanting to cut and run in Iraq. This time, however, the Democrats will be fighting back. In Virginia, for example, the campaign of Democratic nominee Jim Webb-a decorated Marine and a former Republican-responded to a Republican ad that accused him of supporting flag burning by saying, "People who live in glass dude ranches"-Webb's opponent, Senator George Allen, spent summers working on ranches while Webb was in Vietnam-"should not question the patriotism...
...combine his whipping skills with those of his nemesis, Dick Durbin of Illinois, who was rallying Democratic opponents of the Amendment. Supporters were not quite so delicate with him. At a Flag Day celebration earlier this month attended by Senator Majority Leader Bill Frist and Kentucky's other Senator, Jim Bunning, for example, backers trotted out Miss America 2000, Heather French Henry, former Miss America and wife of Kentucky's Democratic Lieutenant Governor, who singled McConnell out and asked him "to help protect our flag...
...about the war in Iraq, "a strategy to win in Iraq or a strategy for Republicans to win elections here at home." There was, of course, no doubt that politics would trump substance. The Republicans dutifully repeated White House talking points, punctuated occasionally by perverse outbursts like Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe's assertion that "this isn't a civil war...the insurgents aren't Iraqis." The melodrama on the Democratic side was the continuing slow-motion self-immolation of Senator John Kerry, who posited, on the radio, "lie and die" as the Bush Administration's alternative...
...memories, and Bosnia and Kosovo received much international attention, yet the most deadly of all recent conflicts seems to go largely unnoticed by both the left and the right. Thank you for awakening us. Nicholas Kerton-Johnson Bristol, England Consumers vs. Climate Change I was pleased to see Jim Ledbetter's essay [June 5] pointing out that individuals need help to slow global warming. I could put solar panels on my house, buy a hybrid car, collect and use rainwater and do a host of other things to curb my contribution to global warming, but the cost...
...Mass., with 30 employees, fears that guaranteed paid leave would encourage workers to take longer and more frequent time off, hurting productivity. "A trained, experienced worker will be missing for three months," Connolly says. "That's a real cost." And anything that increases the cost of doing business, says Jim Klocke of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, could send jobs elsewhere...