Word: villainizing
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...middle class have been lower taxes, less government. And the G.O.P. primary front runners are on message. With his plaid shirts and his footwork across the early primary states, Lamar Alexander has been straining for the common touch. But for the most part his populism identifies the standard G.O.P. villain, Washington. Steve Forbes? Enough said. As for Dole, his parents were so poor that during the Depression they moved the family to the basement of their house so they could rent the main floor to an oil company manager. But his solutions for the castoffs of the new economy...
...capital it could deploy against QualMed's own California operations. As long as Dr. Hasan pressed the lawsuit, Greaves knew, Health Net had no hope of going public. "It was devastating to us," Greaves says. "My name was in the paper every day as a bad guy, a villain...
...should the President be denied satisfaction on account of his office? If the office allows him to testify about exposing himself to a former employee, surely he will not be denied the privilege of defending his wife's honor. In the old days, he would have challenged that villain to a duel. But in these gentler times, mano a mano would seem more appropriate...
...against one man, Newt Gingrich, a vividly inviting target who virtually poses for cartoons of himself. Enemies picture Newt as the Simon Legree of school lunches and Medicare, the golfing partner of capital gains, the Churchill from K Mart, the nerd pistolero of the punitive right, the all-purpose villain...
...about his brother's legal problems and the problems of his one-time administration. "Above all, Salinas is concerned with his place in history," reports Latin America bureau chief Laura Lopez. "He also wants to clean up the family name. The attacks on him here have made him a villain in Mexican society. People are wearing masks with his picture in a jail suit. It's really nasty. But Salinas probably will testify. He's a tough guy who feels he can correct the perception people have of him." Salinas fled the country last spring after resigning from the presidency...