Word: washingtonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...keep up with the demand for the butt-centric moves and it promises to make a dent nation-wide. So, before the trend passes Harvard by, take time to learn the dance craze that will soon storm the nation. Here are the steps as reported by the Washington Post...
Forbes blamed the excesses of the current tax code on Washington lobbyists, who he said exert undue influence on the Internal Revenue Service...
...hearing before the Senate Budget Committee in January, Greenspan was asked, among other things, about the soaring value of Internet stocks. His comments were so ambiguous that the major newspapers didn't know what to think. Headlines the next morning ranged from "Frenzy for Internet Stocks Gains Backer--Greenspan" (Washington Post) to "Fed Head Warns Against 'Net-Stock Hype" (New York Post) to "Asked About Internet Issues, The Fed Chairman Shrugs" (New York Times). Of course, all the major stock market indexes showed sharp gains that...
This is the complete opposite of what individual states have been doing. In the last several years, citizens in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Washington and Oregon have all passed campaign-finance initiatives. Two more states, Arizona and Massachusetts, passed similar laws during the 1998 elections. These states run the ideological gamut, but their voters all understand one thing: The massive influx of money into the political process is dangerous to our 200-year-old ideal of democracy...
...bill will be introduced on the floor. It is the duty of House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-III.), a moderate who is known for building compromises, to try his darndest to pass the bill. Because the people are speaking, the wheels are turning, and soon the Democratic junior senator Washington insiders ignored for so long as an "upstart" may come back to haunt them. Way to go, Russell. Vasant M. Kamath '02, a Crimson editor, is a government concentrator living in Thayer Hall...