Word: rust
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Rove believes that ideological purity is not something real-world politicians can afford. (Last week he helped persuade Bush, the avowed free trader, to impose steel tariffs to protect Rust Belt jobs--and votes.) The same goes for impartiality, he says, since the parties are fighting for control of both the House and the Senate this November. "We would be making a mistake if we simply stepped off the battlefield when a lot is at stake and when a lot of people have rallied around one candidate who had become the presumptive favorite," Rove told TIME...
...Reports from the White House say it came down to Paul O'Neill the free-market economist against Karl Rove the GOP vote-counter. Pork politics - just those few rust-belt votes can lock down the House in 2002 and the White House in 2004 - won. And man-of-integrity Bush, who by keeping one campaign promise to West Virginia sold out not only his free-market principles but also most of his own party, is now sporting a sizeable black...
...Make sure he gets paid. Zoellick, embarrassed enough, didn't get specific Tuesday about how the decision helped Bush "manage the home front," but everybody knew what he was talking about. The White House can now go to the steel unions and rust-belt congressmen Bush just bailed out and present the bill: Passage of fast track...
...deals to Congress on an up-or-down basis (no amendments), like campaign-finance reform tends to get bogged down in one Congressional body as soon as it passes the other. It can be rammed through, but it needs a push, and Bush now has to make sure his rust-belt charity cases remember who it was that pissed off the world to help them out, and to collect...
Harvard went 1-for-14 from the arc during the first half against Brown. After going 2-for-13 against Colgate, the poor percentage was attributed to rust and an “off night.” Against the Elis, the Crimson went 0-for-7 in the first half, improving to 4-for-11 in the second, but still finished shooting just 22.2 percent from behind...