Word: paint
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...building--and the presidency--sprang back. The inner structure was rebuilt, and the sandstone shell was repaired and scrubbed down. Coats of white paint were applied, giving permanence to the name White House, which was first used in 1806. President James Monroe eagerly moved in and threw a big party in celebration...
Even so, that term--voucher--has proved to be radioactive in politics. Former candidate Bill Bradley learned that lesson when Gore used the word to paint Bradley's health-care plan as a paltry handout. There is a long history of such scorching moments in fights over health-care reform, particularly when they involve Medicare, a program that is literally a life-and-death matter to the nation's most engaged voting bloc, the elderly. Gingrich found out the hard way as he tried to restructure the program in 1995 to squeeze hundreds of billions of dollars...
...tenacious defender of its brand. In 1981 the IOC even managed to get an international treaty granting global control of its ubiquitous five-ring logo. But the greybeards who run the committee were caught napping by the age of the Internet. Olympic.com was snapped up by a reputable U.S. paint company of that name, so the IOC lumbers on with the less catchy olympic.org (Although official sponsor IBM did snag olympics.com for this year's Sydney Games site...
...conversation with a curt "I'm online here." Andre Braugher (NBC's "Homicide") is serial felon recently freed from the pen, still wearing his prison-issued shoes. And Maria Bello (NBC's "ER") is a con woman who's willing to exchange oral sex for an automobile paint job (she's the one giving out the former...
...Even so, that term--voucher--has proved to be radioactive in politics. Former candidate Bill Bradley learned that lesson when Gore used the word to paint Bradley's health-care plan as a paltry handout. There is a long history of such scorching moments in fights over health-care reform, particularly when they involve Medicare, a program that is literally a life-and-death matter to the nation's most engaged voting bloc, the elderly. Gingrich found out the hard way as he tried to restructure the program in 1995 to squeeze hundreds of billions of dollars...