Word: protocolic
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...that was negotiated there, but in the White House it has come to mean the second round of environmental problems. Round two started when Bush reversed his position on limiting CO2 emissions which many scientists believe contribute to global warming. When he simply reiterated his opposition to the Kyoto protocol that locked in the notion that he didn't care about the issue at all. "Kyoto" has also come to symbolize the White House's belief that on the environment their problem is not so much a matter of substance as presentation. In a luncheon with reporters Monday, White House...
...Daschle got Jim Jeffords to leave the G.O.P. and throw power to the Democrats, Daschle phoned George W. Bush as a peace gesture. "What's the protocol here?" Bush asked. After a political coup, does the President call the new Senate majority leader or vice versa? They both chuckled. No matter who dials first, the two most powerful politicians in Washington will be talking a lot more than they have in the past five months...
Birendra had made the transition from absolutism gracefully, staying above factional politics and striving through literacy programs and public works efforts to project an image of the royal family as a discreet, benevolent force. Ambassador Keshav Raj Jha, a former Chief of Protocol, recalls that when the King visited Italy in 1994, he traveled by unmarked bus and stopped at McDonald's for coffee and snacks. "He refused to allow his security detachment to tell people who he was," says Raj Jha. "He waited in line just like the other motorists...
...shows in particular are already drawing fans across the Continent. That's one reason MTV, which reaches more than 340 million households in 150 countries, chose France and Sweden as the launchpads. Penetration of digital cable is higher in those countries than elsewhere. Since streaming media via the Internet Protocol Standard is not yet possible over TV, MTV Live will initially air over PCs, then migrate to television after their standards merge. "It is one way to stay ahead of the curve," says William Roedy, president of MTV Networks International...
...President's telling South Korean President Kim Dae Jung that the U.S. was not going to continue talks with North Korea, seemingly undermining Seoul's "Sunshine Policy" toward Pyongyang? What about the snub to Europeans and the rest of the world when Washington pronounced the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change dead? Or the insistent push forward on missile defense in the face of European opposition that is polite in public and exasperated in private...