Word: washingtonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...women, to hire someone to oversee women's outreach, to put together a network of grassroots female opinion leaders. And for months, they have been told there was no money for it, or that the timing simply wasn't right. After one splashy luncheon with 1,200 women in Washington last September, the campaign's effort to mobilize women largely fizzled. Meanwhile, polls kept showing Gore trailing GEORGE W. BUSH among crucial female voters. "I understand the frustration," a Gore adviser conceded. "It happens all the time...
DIED. ALAN HEIMERT, 70, influential Harvard literature professor; of complications from cardiovascular disease; in Washington. Heimert's best-known book, Religion and the American Mind (1966), suggested that Evangelicals helped prompt the American Revolution...
...BREAK Washington's top agency for ferreting out hidden assets, the IRS, last week dedicated itself to tracking down a new type of missing treasure: lost, abducted and runaway children. With help from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, the IRS will publish photos of missing children in its 1999 tax publications and instructions. One in six missing kids is found through such photos. So when your tax packet arrives this year, don't just toss it over to your accountant--look...
GENE BLUES Gene therapy has been going through a rough patch lately. First, a young patient died in the middle of his gene-therapy trial. And last week the Washington Post reported that half a dozen heart patients have died while undergoing a different form of gene therapy. These patients were already desperately ill, however, and it's not clear that the treatments had anything to do with their death. Gene therapy shows great promise, but anyone who is considering it should know that it's still very experimental...
Sources--Good News: Nature (11/4/99); U.S. Department of Agriculture conference. Bad News: American College of Chest Physicians meeting; Washington Post (11/3/99...