Word: loops
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...policy and McLarty playing a more compartmentalized role, Clinton will hear less of their moderate advice to counter the more liberal outlook of Stephanopoulos. (In fact, one reason Gergen took Gore's offer to go to State is that he knew Stephanopoulos would cut him out of the information loop on domestic-policy questions once McLarty was no longer in a position as chief of staff to protect him.) Despite their past differences with Panetta, political advisers such as Begala, James Carville and Mandy Grunwald are likely to gain in strength too with less counterinfluence from Gergen and McLarty...
...they feel about major issues of the day, we encourage them to express their views by filling out the postcards enclosed with the page and sending them to their elected representatives. "What we're doing," says senior editor Barrett Seaman, who is overseeing the project, "is closing the loop among ourselves, our readers and our government...
There is more to populism than meets the eye. Though it often seems to spring from out-of-the-loop sources not worth the attention of the intelligentsia, at the right moments in history is able to tap immense stores of dormant power, residing in the simple mass of the populace. In any nation, and perhaps especially in a democracy, the normally passive majority can be roused to levels of action which, due merely to their weight in numbers, can have profound effects on society. Whether the action comes in the from of picking up a ballot or picking...
...applied to Quincy, because I felt that it has a much friendlier atmosphere than Mather," said a Mather House sophomore. "[Mather] is a house dominated by athletes, so if you're not athletic, you feel out of the loop...
...push it to the point of reinjury because then you're through." So there were sessions of swimming and weight lifting. And the bike. "I have to use the bike to loosen up, and I hate it," says Kerrigan, 24. The day she first pulled off a triple toe loop, says Mary with a sigh, "was . . . just . . . wonderful." The rest of the triples and spins followed, and there will be no changes in her program...