Word: wonk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gore--dutiful, competent, the consummate wonk--who better to encapsulate our experience? Here is a man who shares our debased vocabulary of "new paradigms" and "right-sizing...
...higher in a pinch -- or it?s going to disappear completely. And by way of pre-negotiation negotiation, both sides will be insisting all month that that?s OK with them. "Sometimes inaction is better than wrong action," said Trent Lott on Tuesday, sounding just like White House wonk Gene Sperling did on Sunday. If no deal gets done, this year?s surplus goes straight into debt repayment ? something nobody is against these days. And although Roth has a way with bipartisanship, a standoff seems the likeliest possibility. "Clinton has successfully sold his spending programs as more important than...
Years ago, I put on the record what I had learned about blue jeans at Southwest High School, in Kansas City, Mo.: "Anybody who wears jeans that are not Levi or Lee is a nerd, a creep, a wonk, and walks like a duck." What binds Weyrich and me together, I realized, is that we believe in an absolute standard of behavior, what used to be called the eternal verities; we deplore what he would probably call relativist morals and I would call a lot of people being willing to go around dressed like dorks...
...goes. "What does wonk mean?" "How many novelists have been on your cover?" "Can you find a letter my son wrote to you in 1970?" "How much do actors make?" Oddly enough, no one has yet asked why the sky is blue...
...year. Ginsburg came in second and Ornstein third. Some thought Ginsburg was graded a bit high. But there were no sour grapes. "When you do something like this," Ornstein said, "and people laugh, it's just--great!" Dreams do come true. The man came in a wonk, but left feeling like Howie Mandel...