Word: washingtonization
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...influential architects of the institutions governing international relations in the 20th century," said Roger B. Porter, IBM Professor of Business and Government and Director of the KSG Center for Business and Government, with which Vernon was affiliated. "For over 20 years, Ray Vernon's full-time public service in Washington placed him at the center of the development of new institutions domestic and international...
Fred S. Hiatt '76, a former Crimson editor and Washington Post editorial writer, will serve as the paper's next editorial page editor, the Post announced September...
...Bill Clinton, Republican Senate leaders are embracing a time-warping plan to make this year?s budgetary ends meet: They?re adding a 13th month to the upcoming fiscal year. "We all know we engage in a lot of smoke and mirrors," Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) told the Washington Post on Monday. "But we have to fund education, NIH, worker safety and other programs. It's a question of how we do it." The GOP is desperate not to be the ones to bust those 1997 spending caps (the ones on which all those mammoth surpluses are based...
...Economic globalization appears to have made corporate America more sensitive than Washington?s political class to Arab political concerns. After all, Hillary Clinton doesn?t have to fear an Arab backlash at the ballot box when she stumps for New York votes by publicly urging her husband to recognize Jerusalem as Israel?s capital. But Disney stands to lose up to $150 million a year in an Arab boycott of its products. Despite Eisner?s assurances, Arab League officials are still demanding the right to inspect the "Millennium Village" before its opening to ensure that Islamic and Christian claims...
...independent Buchanan campaign remains something of an X factor. As a social conservative, Buchanan could siphon off twice as many votes from a Republican candidate than from a Democrat, according to a poll conducted by GOP consultant Frank Luntz. Republicans are painfully aware of this threat, says TIME Washington deputy bureau chief Matthew Cooper. ?As Jay [Carney, TIME's Washington correspondent] discovered, the Bush people have launched a charm offensive to keep Buchanan from bolting,? says Cooper. But loyal Dems shouldn?t mail their Buchanan campaign contributions just yet, Democratic strategist James Carville told TIME ? Buchanan could steal votes away...