Word: overboard
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Even some who worked for the Palin administration say the gas team went overboard. "They had a tendency to be preachy," says Larry Persily, who worked in Palin's Washington office. "They are true believers, zealots even." Irwin defends the hard line: "People in Alaska are tired of being pushed around by oil and gas companies." Palin's approach, Galvin says, "represented a fundamental shift in the entire relationship between the state and companies...
...best at the worst in politics? Like squabbling children, each campaign seeks to justify its behavior by pointing fingers and insisting that the other team lied first. But in the main, McCain has been far quicker to throw the truth overboard--both in advertisements and on the stump. There are so many charges and countercharges about who distorted things first that we decided to spread the highest profile allegations, good and bad, across a grid measuring both accuracy and substance so you can be the judge...
Holy cow! It looks like the Pope has really gone overboard this time. His latest encyclical contains a list of sins so sweeping that it is now practically a sin to be a human being. Paul Hoylen Jr. Deming, New Mexico...
...clear the waters of debris left by fellow fishermen. Man has used his planet as a giant dump, and even now as other creatures are choking on refuse, man chooses to fill the world with more perils. If we cannot stop ourselves from throwing a beer can overboard, how can we effectively manage nuclear weapons, atomic energy and gene splitting. My hope is that we can; my fear is that we cannot. James R. Vernon Fort Worth The picture of the herring gull sitting proudly but snarled by the plastic mesh of a six-pack haunts me and makes...
...Crist's environmental victory came just as many Floridians and other national political observers had begun to wonder if he was going overboard in a perceived bid to be John McCain's running mate. McCain announced earlier this month that he favors allowing new offshore oil drilling to help ease America's gas-pump nightmare. Crist, who runs a beach-rich state that even Jeb Bush defended against offshore rigs, turned heads when he agreed with McCain. Or he at least said he was "willing to consider" the idea, as he told TIME on Wednesday, but only "if it could...