Word: patting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WHEN THEY HEAR TALK about heartless employers and greedy corporations, Republicans generally grumble about Democrats waging class war. At least most Republicans do. And then there's Pat Buchanan, warmonger. "Executioners" is what he calls employers like AT&T that lay off thousands of workers. "These companies are like creatures in Jurassic Park," he told TIME last week. And what will his campaign do? "Stand up for the working men and women whose jobs are threatened by unfair trade deals done for the benefit of huge corporations," he told a cheering crowd in Manchester, New Hampshire...
...much to protect secretaries replaced by voicemail or assembly-line workers shoved aside by robots. And retaliatory tariffs against U.S. goods could mean a loss of jobs for big American exporters like aerospace and agriculture. "The reason why we're not the kind of manufacturing economy Pat Buchanan remembers when he was young is not because of imports," says economist Paul Krugman at Stanford. "It is not because foreigners are taking away the good jobs. It's overwhelmingly domestic forces that have caused that...
...problem for Bob Dole, the wounded front runner, was that he was unable to be Pat Buchanan and unwilling to be himself. Lamar Alexander, trying to convince voters he was more than the "least worse" choice, had to roll out a refreshened agenda even if its contents, such as the abolition of food stamps, might come back to haunt him. Steve Forbes had to decide whether to admit he had been running an ugly race, cage his pit bulls and run on his strengths instead of his enemies' weaknesses. And Pat Buchanan, who reinvents Republicanism when he offers dispirited workers...
...from playing the snarling bully, Pat Buchanan alone seemed to be having fun, winding up, lobbing snowballs at his rivals and savoring the feeling of preaching to the choir. This was the state where he scared George Bush in 1988 by winning 37.4% of the vote. No matter how strong the state's economy has become--unemployment stands at 3.2%, well below the national average--or how many goods are exported with the help of Clinton's hated trade agreements, Buchanan could count on large, rapt, eager crowds wherever he went, of displaced workers and converted flower children and anyone...
...deep voice and large gesture who declaimed on makeshift stages in small towns and villages in the 19th century. For one night only, they performed Hamlet's soliloquies and Tennyson's odes and transported the locals to a distant world. Last week, on a snowy New Hampshire evening, Pat Buchanan brought his one-man traveling show to the Victorian-era Opera House in the northern town of Littleton, a gemlike stage once graced by Mrs. Tom Thumb and Gorgeous George...