Word: uglier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doesn't get uglier than this in American politics: Management vs. Labor; Donkey vs. Elephant. That trend was reinforced on Monday with a new plan by the nation's largest association of business owners to step up its support of business-friendly congressional candidates. Portraying itself as the striving entrepreneur being bullied by both big labor and big government, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce unleashed its first-ever plan to donate directly to federal-level political campaigns; about $100,000 will be donated to each of 47 mostly Republican congressional candidates. The chamber says it is worried by many...
...many ways, Rudy and Hillary will be battling each other on the same centrist policy terrain. It will heighten the chance that the campaign will turn on personal politics--who gets uglier, and more rattled, in the charge and countercharge of a New York election. Giuliani won't hesitate to go negative. In 1997 he accused his overmatched opponent, Ruth Messinger, of giving a party in the 1970s for an Attica prison inmate; suggested she supported X-rated video stores; and all but blamed her for the Brooklyn Dodgers' 1957 move to Los Angeles. But Giuliani could pay a price...
Thus we see the uglier side of identity politics. I know nothing from your article about Beauregard's plans for the upcoming year or experience in the organization. I know only that she is the first woman to be elected president. By exalting her as the first woman, you have also pigeonholed her into her sex and diminished her ideas and record otherwise. BETH A. STEWART...
...clear here. Though I believe the lack of council involvement in politics reveals the uglier flaw of the institution (its lack of power), I believe the council still works best when it works without politics. We had no more power when we were political than we do now. Back then we just used to divert everyone's attention from that fact by inflaming people on either side of a controversial issue whose national or international outcome we had no ability to affect...
...emerged from Tuesday's election America's favorite imperfect leader. Voters might have retired Clinton in 1996 for moving too far to the left had Gingrich not come along and yanked the whole enterprise too far to the right. Gingrich had always been Clinton's best foil, the uglier alternative to whom Clinton kept pointing every time Americans got fed up with the President's inability to govern, stay focused and get things done. As scattered as Clinton can be, Gingrich was always worse, talking about dinosaurs and space colonies and women in trenches...