Word: whips
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...Reid called Alan Greenspan a "political hack" last week, it was another illustration that the Fed Chairman?s near-oracle status has fallen victim to the rising partisanship in Washington. His support of Social Security private accounts was only the latest move to anger Democrats. Last month, Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin said, "Mr. Greenspan lost his credibility when he endorsed the President's tax cuts." Republicans, not surprisingly, don't agree, and have been almost gleeful at Greenspan's endorsement of their plan for Social Security. "Nobody in government has more credibility than Greenspan," says Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley...
...This does not mean Beijing won't reach for the whip. During a session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, an advisory body whose annual meeting convenes ahead of the NPC's, Hu delivered a surprisingly conciliatory speech on the possibility of talks with Taiwan, saying that the government "will continue to seek prospects of peaceful reunification" with the island. Yet topping the NPC agenda this week is ratification of a new "antisecession" law, which may set out the steps Beijing would take should Taiwan declare independence from the mainland...
...archival material, especially the excavated fight reels. In one, Johnson teasingly applauds an opponent midround for landing a punch. In the Tommy Burns fight, the frame freezes as police stop the fight and order the cameras stilled to spare the world the trauma of seeing a black fighter whip a white one. On film, Johnson's singularity is stark: he is a lone, relentless black giant amidst a sea of white faces...
...House of Commons was at last demanding a whip hand over the House of Lords, and Their Lordships with embattled obstinacy would not yield. They had haughtily rejected the Commons' so-called "People's Budget" championed by liberal Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith, later the Earl of Oxford & Asquith, and were arrayed against the radical proviso to impose an extreme tax on income and property of Chancellor of the Exchequer David Lloyd George, whose ungentlemanly Limehouse speeches at this time were all about "our dissolute dukes...
...Harry is rock solid, even on the little things," says New York Senator Chuck Schumer. "If he promises you there won't be a vote after 7 p.m., he'll find some creative way to make sure the vote doesn't happen. His whip counts are always accurate. If he says he'll get you five votes, he does. And he is tough. When people do the wrong thing, when they take the easy way out on a vote, he lets them know it. And he doesn't forget." These sorts of things, as opposed to charm or ideology...