Word: leash
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...Well, Turkey was on a short leash already. The IMF has already provided a $11.4 billion bailout package, with the condition that Turkey reform its banking system. This was a sign that reform - and the political stability that's needed to pull it off - could be in serious trouble...
...this alternative view of voting recognizes the larger context of our campaigns and elections. Politicians function, not with the zero-sum calculus that determines their victory or loss, but rather on the balance of their own popularity. Politicians interpret their margin of victory as the length of the leash granted to their governance. (A fact that should make the next four years very amusing, if nothing else.) By voting, young people get an inch--no matter how small--of the leash granted to our politicians. More plainly, by voting, young people help to set the bounds on what is politically...
...Waller: It is - every Senate Republican will vote for Ashcroft, and every Democrat will at least express reservations about the nomination, and there could be 40 of them voting against it. At this point, all Democrats want is to keep Ashcroft on a short leash once he's at the Justice Department. They want him to know they'll be keeping an eye out for any movement that betrays Ashcroft's personal ideology...
...Gore's lawyers are already into next week, salting the earth in Miami-Dade in case Palm Beach and Broward don't get their man "over the top." But from Sunday night to Monday morning, a losing Gore would have a chance to yank on the legal leash...
...They don't expect him to stop every terrorist attack, but they do expect him not to loosen the leash on the terrorists, which he has essentially done by releasing them from prison and encouraging them. But they do believe that this time, Arafat is showing more will to try and rein things in. If he's prepared to stop the shooting, that would go an awful long way. Israelis don't like the rioting and Molotov cocktails, but they can live with it. If Arafat can live with that himself, the Israelis are prepared to soften their own tone...