Word: shore
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...Taxachusetts. That's a tough sell, since McCain has always been a staunch conservative--pro-life, pro-gun, antitax, antiregulation. But Bush argues that McCain's advocacy of campaign-finance reform and his opposition to whopping tax cuts mean he has abandoned his ideals. The argument is designed to shore up Bush's right-wing support in South Carolina, but it wasn't working so well last week, as McCain inched past Bush in the TIME/CNN poll. Yet Bush and his surrogates aren't the only ones wondering whether McCain has morphed into some strange new breed of politician...
...mechanics but also in its ideas. He has mostly forsaken large-scale policy speeches in favor of town-hall Q.s and A.s, where issues can be dealt with in catchphrases. His few attempts at concreteness tend to collapse in self-contradiction. He wants to use the budget surplus to shore up Social Security and preserve it for future generations; at the same time, he would undermine it by letting workers deposit part of their payroll taxes in private accounts. Long an advocate of a flat tax with minimal loopholes, McCain proposed a tax plan riddled with loopholes for the middle...
...fact-paced trial of four New York City police officers accused of murdering Amadou Diallo is moving into its third week, and the lawyers representing the officers are scrambling to shore up their defense. "This trial is moving like a freight train," says TIME correspondent Jack White. That's not good news for the defendants, whose case was damaged Wednesday by a defense witness who suddenly turned hostile...
...state, Warren Tompkins, says McCain is "taking positions to the left in order to find a constituency, play a numbers game." He calls McCain's tax policy "more Clintonesque than Reaganesque." And of McCain's plan to use most of the surplus to reduce the national debt and shore up Social Security, he adds, "I don't believe our party, especially in South Carolina, is ready for a candidate whose plan is endorsed by Clinton-Gore." In fact, the TIME/CNN poll suggests that a majority of South Carolina Republicans--74%--agree with McCain and Clinton that the country would...
...live alone in a shingled cottage by the shore. Every morning I get up from my feather bed, putter across my shiny parquet floors and eat breakfast in my sun-filled kitchen as I wait for the chauffeur to swoosh me off to my job--as a bookie for the local crime ring...