Word: white
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...open up a glossy magazine called Campaigns and Elections, and I'm shot in the head. I stare at a middle-aged white guy with an angry grin aiming a '38 at my face. "They're gunning for you," reads the tag line on the page--an ad for the Virginia-based campaign consulting firm called Jamestown Associates. In light of the recent imbroglio over gun control in the house, Jamestown promises to "turn those bullets into blanks" for GOP. candidates who will campaign against those nefarious Democrats...
...They have formulas for their entrees," Pappas says. "I have to admit that I wouldn't add that butter or that cholesterol or fat. I would sometimes use egg whites instead of eggs, to make things low fat. Some of the bigger guys would come in knowing that they could get egg white omelets from...
...Clinton?s lawyers said the penalty should be much lower, on the order of $33,737, they accepted the judge's ruling. "Judge Wright has always made clear that if Clinton wanted to litigate her contempt findings, he risked opening up a whole can of worms," says TIME magazine White House correspondent Jay Branegan. No one at the White House likes the contempt finding and the penalty, reports Branegan, but some Clinton supporters are saying that rather than have the country go through the constitutional crisis of an impeachment, it would have been better to have the matter settled this...
...Congress on a showdown with Bill Clinton over tax cuts. The challenge will be getting to the big game in one piece. As the GOP leadership gets ready to stampede a massive cut through the Senate this week, they?ll be stepping on the toes of not only the White House and the majority of economists, but some moderate members of their own party ? just like the House leadership did last week. Rhode Island Republican John Chafee is leading a handful of fellow moderates and Democrats who want to split the tax-cut difference between the White House ($250 billion...
...meantime, it looks more and more like the GOP leaders against the world. From the White House (Al Gore stopped by late Tuesday to trash the bill for neglecting Medicare) to the polls, the appetite for a cut that big just isn?t there right now. Even fellow Republican and economic icon Alan Greenspan is in on the finger-wagging. In testimony before the Senate Banking Committee Tuesday, the Fed chairman more or less repeated what he told the House last week: In this time of economic plenty, tax cuts aren?t bad, but debt repayment ?- and preparing for boomers...