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If Senate Republicans tack on a Nickles amendment, Democrats might even filibuster to block McCain-Feingold, which otherwise has their unanimous support.
The Daily Telegraph took a similar tack, decrying the "rise in military influence" and "a resumption in the sway of oligarchs such as Boris Berezovsky," but taking heart in the shift of power "from conservatives to reformers."
But rather than pursue that obscure tack any further (place names such as Washington are surely both proper nouns and eponyms), let us see if the proper categories of words really end there as grammar books tend to suggest.
The etymological game being what it is--( requiescat in ) pace John Ciardi--I fully expect someone to come up with an origin for cute as a button that identifies it with the six adorable daughters of some 17th-century Londoner named Button or, just to make it more complicated, a corruption of the expression *acute as a bouton in which bouton means `stud with a sharp point'--in other words, originally equivalent to sharp as a tack .
The Washington Post lead reports that Clinton's top political advisors have reached virtually unanimous agreement that he must say more publicly about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky, a tack so far resisted by the First Family.