Word: spinnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think it looks sort of like 'A Different World; you know, that TV show," said Daniel N. Webb '96, referring to a "Cosby Show" spin-off from the late 1980s...
...other side, of course. That's the spin that both President Clinton and Republican leaders put on the compromise that formally reopened the Federal Government after a bitter six-day budgetary impasse. Republicans gloated that the deal commits the President to a seven-year time frame for a balanced budget. The President and his aides happily pointed out that the agreement requires Congress to respect White House priorities on such matters as Medicare, education, environmental protection and taxes...
...threat of a default on the national debt, that was really more about spin than substance. The G.O.P. had long intended to use the need to lift the debt ceiling to gain leverage in budget negotiations; the Administration had an equal interest in casting the Republicans as reckless for holding the nation's credit hostage to "extreme" demands. Both sides, however, were quietly counting on Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin to stave off an actual default through internal bookkeeping changes--and last Wednesday he came through. He used an arcane process called "disinvestment," which enabled him to shift tens of billions...
...Florida contest just makes the auction seem more important and thus lifts the bar even higher. So it was dazzling to watch the contortions of his staffers as they tried to lower the expectations they had done so much to raise. Gramm and Alexander, the Dole campaign spin goes, are both Southerners competing on their home field, and anything short of victory for Gramm is a major loss. "We're trying to sort of invade their territory and battle them on message and organization," says Warren Tompkins, the senior Southern consultant for the Dole campaign. But Gramm campaign spokesman Gary...
...tries to minimize the county's rebelliousness. "I'd say there's maybe a dozen people who are really charged up on this issue," he says. But as the conversation evolves, his own hostility becomes clear, as does that of three other county officials present in his office. They spin out stories of federal snubs and restrictions, including the BLM's refusal to allow the county to run a phone wire through a roadside ditch to the county landfill without first having an archaeological appraisal...