Word: washingtonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MATTHEW COOPER, who joined TIME only last month, has already had the unusual experience of being able to admire his photo in the magazine: last year, while he was still a national correspondent at Newsweek, he made our pages after winning a contest that crowned him Washington's Funniest Celebrity. The joke's on the Capitol, because his new job is working as TIME's deputy Washington bureau chief. Cooper will help shape coverage of the 2000 campaign while continuing to write about politics. Fortunately, this will not require complete sobriety. As demonstrated by his piece on George Bush...
...sold more than $60 million worth of prints; G. Harvey, who sold 30,000 prints last year, many at $1,500 or higher; Robert Bateman, a Canadian wildlife artist whose $100,000 originals led to a display of his work at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington; and Wyland, who legally ditched his first name (Robert) after his whale murals built a $50 million empire and won him a designation as official artist of the U.N. "This is a hidden industry," says Redlin, "and people are making a lot of money at it." Last year that industry generated...
...through the spraying of chemical defoliants. The use of herbicides or any other chemical agent is strictly prohibited under Bolivian law in order to preserve the ecological balance. No spraying of any sort is done in Bolivia in connection with coca eradication. MARCELO PEREZ-MONASTERIOS Ambassador, Embassy of Bolivia Washington...
...than credibility at stake. When Reno?s internal investigation is completed, the likely finding will be that Coulson was right ?- the two forgotten devices were fired, and bounced away harmlessly six hours before the blaze erupted. The mainstream press, well accustomed to the big and small incompetencies of the Washington bureaucracies, will likely believe it. A significant slice of the republic will not. And some of them ?- self-styled neo-minutemen with a serious beef against King Sam and the arsenal to back it up ?- may well lock, load and decide to do something about...
...like-minded, connected not in structure but certainly in spirit. Typically, they are deeply rooted into the fertile conspiracy-theory ground of the Internet, and to them the mainstream press is about as trustworthy as Tokyo Rose. When it comes to the jack-booted FBI thugs and their Washington overlords, there are no government missteps, just cover-ups. Not when the "patriots" are enemies to their own government...