Word: repeatability
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...Avenging the Father. This son doesn't want to repeat the mistake that cost George H. W. Bush re-election in 1992. Bush the Elder wanted to soften the hard conservative edges left by eight years of Ronald Reagan. Bush the Younger prefers to solidify support among the conservatives who deserted his father - and win that second term. That concern has been most evident on domestic issues, but it also means making businesses happy by abandoning the effort to reduce greenhouse gases and showing zeal on missile defense, a central tenet of the Reagan catechism...
This familiar mantra surfaced last week in the Justice Department's mea culpa letter to the McVeigh defense lawyers. Justice floated it in hopes that the media would pick it up and repeat it. And we did. But the government's argument is laughable. How would a prosecutor know what's important to a defendant's case? Prosecutors use the excuse to minimize their misconduct under the theory "no harm, no foul," but the courts should punish those who deliberately hold back important evidence. Yet judges too often look the other...
...asked to link letters and words to their corresponding hues, the responses tend to be precise. (The n Feynman read in his physics equations wasn't just violet; it was "mildly violet-bluish.") Tested a year later, synesthetes report the same colors 9 times out of 10; control groups repeat them just a third of the time...
...Repeat offender: He may not be environmentally correct, but George W. Bush sure does love recycling...
...press, officials contend, just doesn't realize that conservation alone cannot solve the problem. Every new policy position requires educating the press as well as the public, but the White House posture on the energy plan is that this task will be harder than ever. Their strategy? Repeat, repeat, repeat...