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...scandals almost on a daily basis." He then glancingly cited the 900 FBI files that turned up in the White House, without explaining the potential abuse of power they represented. And when he did raise questions about the Democrats' sloppy handling of foreign contributions, Dole lapsed into disjointed senatorial shorthand: "Campaign finance might help, might help contributions coming in from Indonesia or other foreign countries, rich people in those countries, and then being sent back after the L.A. Times discovers it-- $250,000." Dole's invocation drew little response from the earnest San Diego audience. Their attitude seemed...
...mamma in a home, she'll die, you know. And it'll be all your fault." But other than this single, salient feature, none of the characters are clearly drawn. We know that Scott's a jerk because he's a Christian minister, which in this context is shorthand for hypocritical bastard. He's also deserving of ridicule because he refuses to have premarital sex with his dishy girlfriend Candice (India Landigran), even though, oddly, he seems to live in sin with her. Just to be even-handed, we know that Jane's a jerk because she berates her boyfriend...
That was The Difference, Dole repeated endlessly, warming to the shorthand, sound-bite-size formulation he hoped voters would internalize. And at the time Dole was close enough in the polls to believe the prize could...
Penet.fi needs no translation for most of the people on that newsgroup. The name is shorthand for an E-mail address--anon.penet.fi--where a garden-variety 486-chipped PC lived for nearly four years. This modest machine performed a lofty task: it allowed people effortlessly to send and receive E-mail or post messages to newsgroups, anonymously...
These two words are shorthand for the proposition that the solution to the Clinton mystery is his opponent. Even many Republicans seem to believe that only by nominating a hopeless candidate could they manage to be losing to such a vulnerable incumbent. If Dole in fact loses, the question of how a ruthlessly efficient election machine like the modern Republican party managed to bungle its nomination so badly will be oft pondered. Even if he wins somehow, the question probably won't go away...