Word: wave
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Bennett was only doing what Charles Ponzi did in Boston back in 1919, paying back one wave of investors with money he received from ensuing waves. Like Ponzi, Bennett was something of a civic hero for a while, and like Ponzi, he was careful not to draw attention to himself with a flamboyant life-style...
...days, the press covered up the sexual misconduct of Presidents and Senators because the public was thought to be insufficiently sophisticated to process it. But in fact voters seem quite capable of analyzing human frailties. After the initial wave of prurient interest in the Flowers revelations died down and Clinton made his contrite nondenial on 60 Minutes, a large segment of the public integrated this information into the picture they had of the candidate and decided to vote for him anyway. By contrast, Packwood pursued the Clarence Thomas strategy: deny everything and attack the credibility of your accuser. Worse...
Perhaps the militias' paranoia comes not so much from Waco as from the wave of crime in this country. We are all tired of feeling unsafe on our streets. Our country is rapidly deteriorating, and it may soon be too late to do anyting about it. In a way, one cannot blame the militias for their beliefs...
...more severe test. The $1.4 trillion in cuts proposed last week by the Republicans in Congress would have a vastly larger impact on the lives of people in Fargo and elsewhere around the U.S. Indeed, the seven-year plan to balance the budget by 2002 set off a wave of indignant reaction from the President, Democrats in Congress, special-interest groups and lobbyists eager to protect their perpetual claims on the Treasury...
...second thing is we right now are consistent with public opinion. When you talk about the Silent Majority, the men and the women who get up every day and go to work, try to raise a family-they're with us on this, and we are really catching a wave. TIME: What convinces you that people are any more willing to sacrifice...