Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...invited the family of Mease's victims to attend hearings. Since the Pope's visit, Carnahan has been doing all he can to look tough--as one aide told the Washington Post, "Mel's been stacking up bodies right and left"--but the death penalty is still a sore spot in his campaign. So when Ashcroft described Judge White as "pro-criminal and activist" on the Senate floor, he was making a perfect political maneuver. Yet as Ashcroft surely knew, the description didn't quite match...
...sunflower studies in Fargo, N.D.--then thunders about $1 billion in military-construction projects the Pentagon never asked for. "This makes me angry," he says, his voice building, "and it should make you angry." When military dedication fuses with reformer's zeal, you know McCain has found his sweet spot...
Every talented politician has a sweet spot--the issues that stir his deepest feelings, trigger his best thinking and ignite his most persuasive oratory. John McCain's sweet spot may be the smallest of all the presidential contenders', but it's also the most powerful. He's like an old-fashioned persimmon-wood golf club--hit it just right, and the ball sails a mile; miss by a hair, and it squibs into the rough. Ask him what's wrong with the campaign-money game or Clinton's foreign policy, and McCain can be dazzling--puzzled and outraged but full...
...these days McCain is finding ways to make his sweet spot grow. He never misses a chance to demonstrate how his signature issue--"six- and seven-figure soft-money donations that buy access and influence"--prevents Congress from solving problems that affect people's lives. Bill Bradley makes a similar argument, but when McCain talks about it, his zeal becomes contagious--and his message begins to seem unified and encompassing. "I don't mean to sound like there is one root cause of all our problems," he told 200 voters in New Hampshire last week, "but there is a significant...
...beach, no mountains, no shopping, no regional cuisine. There's absolutely nothing within walking distance, and no connections to other destinations. Yet it may soon become the human race's most exclusive - and expensive - vacation spot. Where in the world is this? Try out of this world: This weekend, at a conference marking the one-year anniversary of the privately held International Space Station, a consortium of international companies unveiled a proposal to add hotel suites to the orbiting facility...