Word: washingtonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kovach went to work for The New York Times, where he remained for 18 years, ultimately serving as Washington bureau chief...
...that Al Gore is the "underdog," mired in the familiarity and fatigue of the Clinton presidency, the veep wants to engage Bill Bradley in hand-to-hand combat. The Gore camp got on the phone to the newspapers Thursday, telling the Washington Post that Bradley?s days as an "outsider" are numbered, promising to dredge up every compromise and change of heart in the former senator?s 18-year record. (They?re likely to start with Bradley?s recent Iowa flip-flop on ethanol subsidies, which he once called "highway robbery.") Then there?s the debates ?- or at least...
Rudenstine asked for the business community's help in lobbying for more science research funding. This week he and other university presidents traveled to Washington to try to save such funding in the next budget bill. Rudenstine said such moves benefit the entire community...
...using a potty mouth, attracted so much media attention before it was even available that Talk had almost guaranteed a successful launch. Editor Tina Brown, the former New Yorker editor, became the talk of the town (pun intended) as she reveled in the glory of having every soul in Washington, New York and Los Angeles giddy with anticipation over the first issue...
Ever since the passage of Roe v. Wade, abortion-rights activists have feared that abortion opponents, by chipping away at federal law, could eventually succeed in having abortions classified as murders. But this bill, says TIME Washington correspondent John Dickerson, is unlikely to create much of a dent. "I very much doubt that this bill will pass," he says, "and even if it did, it would probably be struck down by the Supreme Court, since it flies in the face of the court?s existing stand on reproductive rights." If defeat is almost guaranteed, what?s in this campaign...