Word: neutral
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were God, I would spread the magic that is baseball across America by instituting a neutral sight program. The Mexicans could see Fernando, the Venezuelans could watch El Presidente, and Ron Darling could get a heroes' welcome in Hawaii (if he were still pitching...
...anyone who disagrees with him as an obstructionist, a fool or both. In a late May meeting to discuss the President's tax credit for college tuition, Morris berated National Economic Council chief Laura Tyson for insisting that Clinton's economic team make sure the proposal was revenue neutral. "The President's giving a speech at Princeton," Morris told Tyson. "The tax credit will be part of that speech. So if you have any little concerns, take care of them." Tyson's chief of staff, Tom O'Donnell, stalked out of the room. Morris called after him. "Message...
...Clinton, many of Morris' early clients were attorneys general, and he ran them as crusading "people's lawyers" in populist campaigns attacking rapacious utility companies and other targets. A rare pollster who can really write, he championed staccato, issues-based TV-ad campaigns that cloaked the negatives in a neutral, newsy style. "I didn't sell candidates through images," he says. "My motto was biblical: 'By their acts shall ye know them...
...fear most. Jim MacPherson, executive director of the Council of Community Blood Centers, which represents independent blood banks that manage the other half of the nation's blood supply, says her assumption of the dual role of First Lady and head of the Red Cross could give the supposedly neutral organization a political edge and an unfair competitive advantage. "It's not reality. How could she come back?...How could any action that she would ever make be viewed objectively?" Especially if Bob Dole were to make good on his campaign promise to fire David Kessler, chief...
Wilson, who will begin teaching at Harvard this fall after 24 years at the University of Chicago, believes the problem of the underclass can be attacked only by "race neutral" programs such as government-financed jobs and universal health care. "The growing gap between the haves and have-nots in our society does not just include blacks, but a lot of Hispanics and even lower-middle-class whites," says Wilson. "In this sort of economic climate, people are not receptive to messages that address the problems of other groups and ignore theirs...