Word: proving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...success as an Oval Office two-termer, DLC thinking has become the party's de facto theology, and its annual conference has developed into a station of the Democratic cross -- the place where, two years out from election day, all but the most liberal candidates must come to prove their mainstream appeal...
...such a degree--as people do so often--does not complicate it; rather, it simplifies. People deliver these disclaimers in the name of "open dialogue." They want to show that they realize the sensitivity and complexity of the issue and respect the exchange of ideas. However, their eagerness to prove what open minds they have backfires. The hesitant beginning leads to a hesitant discussion. Fear of saying the "wrong thing" obscures honest talk. People bite their tongues, and a woefully inadequate status quo remains in place. As a result, the "open dialogue" becomes quite closed...
...Right now we are a colony, we have to prove that we can be trusted with the AEPi name. We'll have to organize a leadership or service project. We're also supposed to be involved with athletics of some sort," Heiman says...
Clinton's latest moves at least have the virtue of making the U.S. appear busy: pressing aggressive inspections, organizing a political opposition, plotting covert action, "preparing the battlefield" for insurrection. But the results are all too likely to prove insignificant when it turns out you can't cheaply subcontract a coup or ever track down 100% of Saddam's terror arsenal...
...will smother under the load. Moreover, say gun opponents, the state databases that feed the the system are incomplete. Critics say that worst of all the system doesn't impose a waiting period to give impulsive gun buyers a chance to cool off.The FBI, of course, is aiming to prove the doubters wrong -- it's hiring more than 500 people to help run the system. The holiday season should be a trial by fire...