Word: jimming
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hopeful postscript to the GOP's humiliating losses in the Nov. 4 elections, incumbent Saxby Chambliss beat Jim Martin in a runoff vote, dashing the Democrats' hopes for a filibuster-proof Senate. With turnout low despite high-profile stumping by Sarah Palin, John McCain, Bill Clinton and Al Gore--as well as Atlanta rappers Ludacris and T.I.--Chambliss won some 57% of the vote...
...DiGiovanni said GM's number crunchers estimated new vehicle sales, on per capita basis, had dropped to the lowest level since the recession of 1958. "2008 will go down as unlike any other year in the industry, and thus, comparisons to 2007 sales have become irrelevant," said Jim Press, Chrysler chairman...
...damnably rivalrous” nature of international assemblies. Lewis also spoke of the recent study by Harvard researchers that found that over 300,000 South Africans died between 2000 and 2005 due to the lack of implementation of antiretroviral treatments. He said that he and Dr. Jim Y. Kim, a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, were the only United Nations officials who criticized the South African government during that period. “Everyone knew that tens of thousands were dying unnecessarily and there was not a word publicly from the secretary general...
...York Times is to be believed, President-elect Barack Obama is preparing to do the unthinkable: cut the defense budget. According to David Sanger ’82, Obama selected his foreign policy trio—Hillary Clinton at State, Robert Gates at Defense, and Jim Jones as national security adviser—based on their shared determination to shift resources from the military to diplomacy...
Some political observers think Tuesday's Senate runoff in Georgia is a big deal because a victory by underdog Jim Martin over incumbent Republican Saxby Chambliss would keep alive the Democratic Party's dreams of a filibuster-proof 60-seat majority to move its agenda successfully through the Senate. Other experts see the race as a big deal for the opposite reason; Democrats with that majority as well as control of the House and White House could overreach, leading to a conservative backlash...