Word: waging
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...the G.O.P. fired up its conservative core by getting gay-marriage bans on the ballot in 11 states on Election Day, Democrats have sought their own rally-the-base issue. What could motivate liberals to turn out for November's midterms? They think they have an answer: the minimum wage...
...federal minimum wage has been stuck at $5.15 an hour since 1997. Polls show that more than 80% of Americans favor an increase, but most Republican politicians--who traditionally side with the business lobby on the issue--do not. So Democrats are sharpening their attacks on the G.O.P. for seeming out of step with public opinion. Senator Hillary Clinton of New York has led a Democratic effort to block a scheduled $3,300 increase in congressional pay--the typical lawmaker's salary would rise to $168,500 a year--unless Republicans agree to hike the minimum wage...
...cost of not supporting an increase is beginning to have an impact in the G.O.P. While Republican leaders in the House have so far blocked efforts to get a vote on the issue this year, some vulnerable, moderate G.O.P. members of Congress are speaking out for a higher minimum wage--and pushing their leadership to relent. Christopher Shays, a nine-term Connecticut Republican embroiled in a tight fight for re-election, says he backs the Dems' push. "I just think it's an embarrassment," he says of his party's stance on the issue...
...Connecticut Senate Democratic primary between Lamont and Lieberman, which will be held on Aug. 8, has become one of the most closely watched campaigns of 2006, as anti-Bush and anti-Iraq war fervor has helped Lamont wage a competitive challenge to Lieberman, who has infuriated Democrats with his vocal defense of President Bush's Iraq policy. But while nationally the race has become a referendum on the state of the Democratic Party, the division between the party's left and right wings and its position on the Iraq War, the debate saw both candidates trying to change the subject...
...Palestine National Council in Cairo. Realizing that they would never be able to destroy Israel in one fell swoop, the Palestinians adopted a graduated plan to wipe out Israel. First, accept any territory given to them in any part of historic Palestine. Then, use that sanctuary to wage war until Israel is destroyed...