Word: panderer
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...gift of Iranian caviar, and thinking it some sort of jam. There is no jam that looks like tiny eggs, I told the friend who repeated the story to me. Her look told me I was being obtuse. The fact is, the more President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his government pander to public sentiment in the Arab world, which is ecstatic over Hizballah's defiant stand against Israel, the more Iranians feel neglected...
...listen to the rhetoric of Republican hardliners who seem to find as much value in a sound bite as in a solution, and others who pander to nativists, Pence has gone soft on illegal immigrants. He did it by coming up with a plan that House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner - another key figure in the immigration debate - uncharitably described this week as "amnesty lite...
...June 1963, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (from whose jurisdiction the magazine had been mailed) heard the government's case that, though the material in Eros may not have been obscene, its promotion tended to "pander to prurient interests." Here are some of the lines from the brochure that the judges viewed as pandering...
...would be easy enough to pander. Howard Dean, chairman of the DNC, had earlier given a red-meat speech that had the crowd roaring up for a standing ovation multiple times, despite the early hour (8:30 a.m.) and all those hangovers. He told the assembled activists that the DNC now has an "Internet department" where "we read you every day;" he thundered against Republican "sleazebags" and joked about how he would not be so welcome at a "quote 'mainstream press' event." Indeed, bashing the traditional press became such a reliable applause line that its invocation became like Catskills comedian...
...views, whether very conservative or very liberal, or even completely off the political spectrum. If the federal government imposes a curriculum, which is essentially what standardized testing does, it will limit the way schools can teach and even what they are allowed to teach because they will have to pander to the arbitrary, supposedly neutral and politically correct standards of some national education advisory committee. It would be difficult for the government to dictate that private universities use standardized testing because this would clearly violate basic constitutional limitations on federal power; simply put, Congress does not have the right...