Word: patting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that the album leaves behind is not of the Artist's music but rather of the pageantry behind it all. The body-hugging velvet costumes. The name that isn't a name. The bizarre album covers. The man himself, whose name has been debated more than the gender of Pat on Saturday Night Live. The Artist Formerly Known as Prince, and Now Generally Referred to As Freak, has put forth a valiant effort in his latest major label album, but to no avail. He plays his own instruments, he writes his own songs (with the lone exception of a cover...
...Unfortunately for Pat, labor endorsements aren't likely to budge from the Gore camp. And while the latest numbers could be quick-burning fuel for Buchanan's campaign, in the long run - and in the face of otherwise rosy economic indicators - a trade deficit won't translate into any mass voter migration. In the end, says TIME financial writer Adam Zagorin, the trade deficit will be a burden for business, not for politicians. "The slight increase in the U.S. trade deficit with China is further evidence of the growing imbalance in commercial exchanges between the two countries," says Zagorin...
What's bad for the U.S. trade balance could be very good for Pat Buchanan - at least for a little while. The isolationist presidential candidate may want to put a few more volunteers on his switchboard after Thursday's Commerce Department announcement that the U.S. racked up a $24.4 billion trade deficit in September - 3.7 percent higher than it was the month before. That's bad news for American manufacturers, who have lost a half million jobs since 1998 as worldwide exports of U.S. goods continue to fall...
...Leading Republican candidates George W. Bush and John McCain gave it similarly cautious approval. So as disenchanted as the trade deal may leave labor, it's unlikely to change the voting preferences of those who wouldn't contemplate deserting the big parties for anti-free trade insurgent Pat Buchanan. But Gore needs more than just a grudging vote from labor: He needs its money spent on campaign ads endorsing his positions and its grassroots activists getting out the vote. If labor chooses to fight hard against the China deal, its enthusiasm for Gore is likely to be muted...
...does not persuade people of the benefits of open markets, international engagement, immigration, racial and religious tolerance. Satiric witticisms amuse us at Harvard (or those of us in Sydney) but simply serve to reinforce the suspicion of many Americans that the intellectual and political elite are laughing at them. Pat Buchanan is not a joke. He is a social specter hidden behind a political shroud...