Word: litmus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...waited patiently to be questioned only to be sent home. But while this public bar exam has become de rigueur, its rules have changed from nomination to nomination, with Republicans and Democrats often contradicting themselves on what questions are appropriate. Some examples of Senators who condemn "litmus tests" at one hearing but brandish them at the next...
...Noble's open scorn for Cambridge politicking and "party hacks" may turn her into a fringe candidate by alienating many of the CCA supporters that might otherwise vote for her because of her gay, white liberal image and her support of rent control--always the bottom-line litmus test of Cambridge politics...
...criticism from the year-old Lavender Alliance, Noble says, "I think it's always interesting when folks who've been here for one year or eight months ask me, who's lived here for 10 years, about a litmus test for what I've done for them...
Even with that caveat, it is clear that the time for a hard look at the longer school year has come. "It's a litmus test on how serious we are about - education," says the Carnegie Foundation's Boyer. The state of Oregon evidently agrees: a comprehensive education bill enacted in July will add 40 days to the school year over the next two decades. Both President Bush and corporate America would also do well to support the change, at least on an experimental basis. The summertime harvest that America needs to reap these days is not down...
...concerns about allegations of fraud, and new conflict- of-interest regulations have combined to drag down morale. The Bush Administration let the situation worsen by leaving the NIH without a director for nearly two years. At least three men turned the job down, some protesting the Administration's abortion "litmus test...