Word: nixonize
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...After Principal Dreier whisked me out of the auditorium and toward my car as if I was Nixon in Venezuela, I was racked by images of being a dirty old man and hearing a woman I was sleeping with say, "I think you spoke at my high school graduation." I saw this happening in about two hours, after a light lunch...
...helicopter is more writer's fancy than fact, the censorship troubles of Yorkin and Lear are all too real. "Family," particularly, has at least one big crisis a season. Two winters ago, it was over the episode about homosexuality that President Nixon so disliked; last winter, a show on which Son-in-Law Mike's exam jitters made him sexually impotent. Smaller crises abound, as when CBS succeeded in knocking out the word "Mafia" from one script, the term smart-ass" from another...
...FERC relenting? The argument against price caps is that they do infinitely more harm than good, as Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon discovered when they allowed government bureaucrats to clog the gears of a free market. Price caps, says Energy Secretary Spence Abraham, are merely a formula for "an increase in the scope, duration and frequency of blackouts...
...Administration to get other nations to agree to a system that both allowed trading to reduce costs and gave credit for establishing carbon "sinks" by protecting growing forested areas or planting trees on degraded farmland. Clinton and Gore negotiating the flexible, market-oriented Kyoto accord was a bit like Nixon going to China. A conservative like Bush could never have achieved such flexibility without vituperative criticism from activists and Democrats...
...With Bush in the White House, of course, members of the Court?s conservative wing are far more likely than their more liberal counterparts to step down. Reagan appointee Sandra Day O?Connor, who's 71, reportedly wants her replacement chosen by a Republican. Chief Justice William Rehnquist, a Nixon appointee, is 77, and also a possible candidate to step down. Also throw in John Paul Stevens, who is 81, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who has successfully fought cancer in recent years, but whom some observers speculate may retire out of concern for her long-term health...