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...mouthful; it does not roll trippingly on the tongue. Nor do its plural forms, the highfalutin thesauri, or thesauruses, which sounds like a prehistoric creature. Thesaurus means treasury or storehouse, but nobody calls Nicholas Brady Secretary of the Thesaurus or says, "Dear, pack up your winter underwear and lock it in the thesaurus...
...Right alliance that emerged between religious and secular conservatives in the late 1970s helped Reagan attract two-thirds of the white evangelical vote, the same proportion Carter had won in 1980. Some 70% voted for Bush four years ago, giving him a lock on the South, where white Protestants are the dominant voting bloc, and strengthening him in important Northern states like Illinois and Michigan...
...similarity of the two candidates' positions may be Bush's biggest problem. Republicans have had a lock on foreign policy ever since McGovern and Vietnam swung the Democrats sharply to the left. Voters consistently found them too soft to trust with the nation's security. But Clinton is attempting to erase that stigma by aligning himself closely to the middle. Both he and Bush are internationalists, both are willing to use force if necessary, neither is an ideologue. Their differences on specific issues tend to be in degree rather than in kind: a matter of a few dollars more...
...transaction is perfectly blatant. A Jordanian customs official is bribed, illegal cargo is substituted for food and medicine, a false manifest is prepared, and the truck heads for the Iraqi border. At the Jordanian customs post, the truck, sealed with a lock and a bit of wire, is not examined, the customs inspector stamps the false manifest, and the driver heads for Baghdad. Boasts police major Ahmed Omari as he waves through a van of vegetable oil: "Not a single truck has carried smuggled goods into Iraq." But thanks to Iraqi payoffs lavished on Jordanian government officials, thousands of tons...
Strategists on both sides are more comfortable with the known terrain of a two-man race. The Republicans see their "electoral lock" triumphing again. "We're looking at a victory resembling the coalition of states that has won for us in the past," said Republican chairman Rich Bond, "the South, of course, and most of the small Western states, with some good showings in the Midwest and a few Northeastern pick-offs." The Democrats concede the "cotton South" to Bush and admit that such electoral-vote powerhouses as Florida and Texas will probably remain with the G.O.P. But they believe...