Word: steeper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...former Tennessee governor hopes that his southern base will help him to a desperately-needed first-place primary finish. Dole also stumped in Georgia after reorganizing his struggling campaign. In a weekend shakeup, Dole demoted deputy campaign chairman Bill Lacy, while adding former 1992 Bush campaign pollster Fred Steeper to his staff...
...Another thing is that the learning curve for younger musicians is a lot steeper...Ben, our tenor sax player, who just started playing six months before I met him, is so much better...
...idea of trying to pass two pieces of legislation that would separate the tax cut from the balanced budget. Republicans would first pass a budget plan, and then address tax cuts." While the idea is likely to get a good reception in the Senate, Tumulty notes, it faces steeper opposition in the House from GOP freshmen still intent on achieving the Contract With America goal of a balanced budget combined with tax cuts. Republicans have been pushing for a $200 billion tax cut over seven years. The Clinton Administration has countered with an offer of $130 billion in cuts, while...
...odds against Dr. Henry Foster becoming the next Surgeon General seemed to grow steeper as his nomination bogged down in a controversy over the number of abortions he had performed during his career-a dispute that once again put the White House in the embarrassing position of having to explicate a sloppy vetting process. Appearing on Nightline, Foster said he had performed 39 abortions-an upward adjustment from the "fewer than a dozen" he said he had previously told the White House about. Many antiabortion Senators questioned Foster's candor, leaving many proabortion-rights lawmakers fuming over the White House...
...real issue is not how much polling the Administration does but how closely Clinton bases his decisions on polling results. Fred Steeper, one of Bush's pollsters, believes that some of Clinton's most popular, and more moderate, policies are driven by Greenberg's surveys and focus groups. "Things like a two-year limit on welfare and three-strikes-and-you're-out on crime, we're all picking those up in our research," says Steeper. "Because the country is still of a conservative bent, the Clinton Administration is finding our ((Republican)) agendas and trying to take them away...