Word: traction
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...below near the top of Mount Van Hoevenberg in Lake Placid, N.Y., and U.S. lugers Mark Grimmette and Brian Martin are wearing skintight racing suits, perched atop a 2-ft.-wide sled. Martin sits behind Grimmette, legs straddling his teammate. "I've got no traction on my feet," yells Martin. Grimmette, like a longtime nanny, instantly wipes them down with his gloves. The pair, teammates for 10 years, alternate deep breaths. "All right, be aggressive," says Grimmette. "Yup," replies Martin. With that, the U.S.'s best-ever Olympic luge team shoots from the starting block. Now supine on the sled...
...Democratic Senators in the hallways. And even Democrats publicly concede their side failed to mount an effective attack on the judge. "It was a missed opportunity," says Democratic pollster Celinda Lake. This morning, Democratic attempts to target Alito's positions on abortion and civil rights got no more traction than before, and even Alito's concession that justices need "the ability to revisit" controversial cases, like Roe v. Wade, failed to provide usable ammunition for his opponents...
...similar charge about President Bush's plan to tighten the border with Mexico and establish a limited guest-worker program. He is about to publish an anti-immigration manifesto, Whatever It Takes, that should rile up right-wing radio just as the White House was hoping to gain traction for a broad immigration-reform package...
...extremely active group on campus) and on the strength of the Dems endorsement (given that in the macroworld you have a Republican administration in the White House with waning approval numbers), and based on the fact that this other ticket [Voith-Gadgil] that seems to have some good traction has two groups coming out against them right now, I think that it’s going to be the Dems- and BSA-endorsed ticket [Haddock-Riley] that will win.” —Mark A. Price ’98, former UC vice-president “Wait...
...expense of his own popularity. Lately, with the Vice President making a signature issue out of opposing new restrictions on the treatment of suspected terrorists, the price has been steep. In one poll, Cheney's approval rating slipped into the 20s, and a former White House nemesis has gained traction on the issue. Republican John McCain, the Senate's most famous prisoner of war, has won strong bipartisan support for a ban on inhumane treatment of suspected terrorists and other detainees, and is fighting Cheney's push for an exemption for the CIA. With the issue in the headlines, McCain...