Word: steam
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...like the head of steam gathering behind a big tax cut, sometimes a mandate is just an invitation for more grandstanding. Most Republicans, Bush first among them, have only the slightest flicker of interest in reform, thanks to some legitimate free-speech problems with a soft-money ban and the iron hands of Lott and chief Senate fund-raiser Mitch McConnell. (He who controls the reelection money controls many a politician, and yes, that was McConnell emceeing Bush's inaugural.) Most Democrats, chief Democratic fund-raiser Bob Torricelli first among them, find that their yen for reform tends to wane...
...other words, despite the palpable slowdown, the consensus of the Time economists was that the lengthiest business expansion in U.S. history will continue in 2001. Says Baily: "I don't see any reason for it to run out of steam if the policy environment is right...
...George W. Bush thought enough of the necessity for what Tom Wolfe called "steam control" to talk to Jackson on the phone last week and to arrange a meeting with him. Whence comes Jackson's legitimacy, his presumed authority to speak for black America? Is it real? Or done with media mirrors...
...fire was reported at the "funny building across from Adams House." HUPD and fire units could not locate the fire in the Lampoon building; eventually they determined it was steam venting. They could not locate any humor in the building either...
Jonas played an excellent game, making several spectacular saves in the first period to keep Vermont off the scoreboard. Throughout the game, as the Catamount offense picked up steam, Jonas continued to make the saves, keeping Harvard ahead...