Word: wonk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like to think that I wouldn't have agreed to that photo op that called for peering out of a tank hatch while wearing what looked like the helmet of a corporal in the wonk corps. But if height is truly destiny, I would have been skunked by George Bush anyway...
...might be less than $27 because I live in New York City, where alternatives to driving are available and increasingly attractive. The subway system, for instance, has mostly new trains as well as many renovated stations, and I think of it as much safer now that Bernhard Goetz, the wonk vigilante, is moving to Boston...
...adroit fund raiser and campaign tactician. He has served as an informal adviser for more than a year. Coelho's stock at the White House rose higher when Leon Panetta became chief of staff. They had once been twin stars of the California House delegation -- Panetta the policy wonk, Coelho the practical politician...
...that. That's not a problem. That's a Washington policy wonk deal...
...self-proclaimed "policy wonk" like Clinton, a man who enjoys nothing better than noodling the ramifications of governmental remedies, so charmed by the kind of kindergarten criminology some of the current "three strikes" proposals represent? Part of the reason is that little serious thinking took place. "The President was moved by the Polly Klaas case," says White House domestic-policy assistant Bruce Reed. "He'd dealt with crime at the grass roots in Arkansas, but after meeting with the murdered girl's father in December he realized again that we have to do more to keep people like that...