Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They think he?s sanctimonious, and their seats are so safe that they risk absolutely nothing with a free walloping." And this time the maverick brought it on himself. "McCain tripped up," says Dickerson. "By bringing up specific pork barrel projects ?- which are a problem but not nearly as serious as, say, a big tax break to an industry that contributes millions to a party ? his rhetoric outstripped the larger, valid point he?s trying to make. So they jumped...
...Seven years later, however, Clinton has just roasted President Bush?s party as hostages to a "new isolationism," the Senate?s rejection of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty having dealt a serious blow to the very global U.S. leadership that Bush had prized. It was a strange moment, which spoke volumes about the fate of U.S. foreign policy ? and the role in it of the presidency ? in the years since the Cold...
Students say the option of paying by credit makes getting into serious debt a relatively easy task...
...full 77 percent of undergraduates at four-year colleges and universities have credit cards, according to data compiled by Consolidated Credit Counseling Services, Inc. (CCCS), a company that helps students with serious debt by securing them lower interest rates, along with credit counseling...
...found prominence of Bradley probably has George W. to thank. The media, eager to play kingmaker, acted too quickly in helping Bush out-distance the crowd. With a serious Republican race seemingly finished by the hype and one shred of the electoral process--a closed straw vote of the oh-so-representative Iowa caucus--the media faced the prospect of several buzz-free months...