Word: pulpiteering
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Myth number three: The New Economy was all a sham, a Ponzi scheme designed to dupe the average American. This myth is a little bit more complex. Some pundits, so naive they should never have been given a bully pulpit, have pointed to the recent slowdown as proof that the New Economy was a ruse. They point to the equally naive proponents of all the New Economy hype who promised an end to the business cycle, growth and prosperity forever and a stock market that never went down...
...understanding of the relationship between parents and children, means and ends, ends and beginnings. And as a result, the conversation that has occupied scientists and ethicists for years, about how much man should mess with nature when it comes to reproduction, will drop onto every kitchen table, every pulpit, every politician's desk. Fierce debate over issues like abortion and euthanasia will seem tame and transparent compared with the questions that human cloning raises...
...going-away gifts, the $800,000-a-year midtown-Manhattan office suite he wanted to rent, the 177 last-minute clemencies he granted and, above all, the one he handed to fugitive billionaire Marc Rich--Clinton's new life feels like the old one, minus the power and the pulpit and the retinue of aides. His war room is a half-furnished Dutch Colonial in the New York suburbs; his lieutenant, a former White House valet named Oscar who keeps Clinton supplied with diet Coke while the ex-President dials through the numbers he has entered on his new, imperfectly...
...course, Clinton is no good to the Democrats now, and this year it's a Republican in the bully pulpit again. Bush will take to the Teleprompter in economic times that are threatening to turn tough, and he'll be selling restraint of government - and some rich-men's rebates - instead of New Deal sympathies. He's not the salesman Bill Clinton was, but then again neither are Dick Gephardt and Tom Daschle, and the great thing about American politics is that viewers will have to choose one or the other...
...understanding of the relationship between parents and children, means and ends, ends and beginnings. And as a result, the conversation that has occupied scientists and ethicists for years, about how much man should mess with nature when it comes to reproduction, will drop onto every kitchen table, every pulpit, every politician's desk. Our fierce national debate over issues like abortion and euthanasia will seem tame and transparent compared with the questions that human cloning raises...