Word: upbeat
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...negotiating a budget compromise with the White House. Next month the GOP will unleash a television ad campaign blaming Clinton for the breakdown. "We've now shifted gears," Gingrich said, in one of the more dramatic understatements of the week. At the White House, President Clinton maintained an upbeat tone, offering a new plan to eliminate the home sales tax and lower the top capital gains rate from 28 percent to 20 percent. That's "a reflection of how serious the President is" about reaching an agreement, White House spokesman Mike McCurry told reporters. But it's more like...
...most ways, Le Marsians are feeling upbeat. The town's population (8,500) has been stable for years. Its economy has largely weathered the farming recessions, thanks mostly to the thriving, family-owned Wells dairy empire, whose output entitles Le Mars to bill itself as the "ice cream capital of the world." Like most Midwestern towns, Le Mars values thrift. Residents still fondly recall that in 1975 Jimmy Carter and his press secretary, Jody Powell, saved six bucks by sharing a room at the Amber Inn. Local Democrats fell for Carter, but there weren't many of them. The place...
Gingrich has coupled his own campaign for power with the recognition that conservative skepticism was not a sufficiently upbeat message. In chronically optimistic America, he needed something more upon which to build a mass movement. In place of the old conservative caution, Gingrich, one of the most absorbent if not always discriminating minds in national politics, has concocted a stew of beliefs that blends the sunny economics of Ronald Reagan and Jack Kemp, the stern moralism of the Christian right and enough giddy futurism either to excite or to frighten his followers. He dubbed himself a "conservative revolutionary...
Gramm's biggest problem in Iowa is Forbes, whose smiling visage and upbeat message of tax cuts and prosperity are an appealing contrast to the scowling Texan. The publishing tycoon is also a one-man Iowa economic boom. He has lavished $1.1 million to spread his message, more than double the combined media expenditures of his rivals. A few weeks ago, neither the Gramm nor Dole camps believed Forbes could turn out significant numbers of supporters at the time-consuming caucuses. Now they are not so sure. As Pat Buchanan told TIME, "[Forbes] is softening up Dole, he's draining...
...Tudjman traced the roots of the crisis in Bosnia back more than 15 centuries to "the breakup between the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire," obviously implying that the wounds cannot be healed quickly. Bill Clinton, who presided in fact if not in name, was far more upbeat. He predicted that "soon the Bosnian people will see for themselves the awesome potential of people to turn from conflict to cooperation...