Word: act
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...that were most representative of the candidates' respective performances. The first came from a farmer asking what each candidate's administration would do to preserve the family farmers' way of life. Gore answered the question directly, specifically and sympathetically. He cited the failures of the 1996 Freedom to Farm Act and talked about better husbandry of the land. He called farmers the "first environmentalists" and suggested expanding the conservation reserve program so that farmers could manage their land themselves but be rewarded for keeping it healthy, for instance by leaving weakened fields fallow to prevent soil erosion. Bush...
...Frank is right. We are too impressionable. We are too impressed by the accomplishments of our parents' generation. We are the eternal second act to the Baby Boomers. Their political consciousness ended segregation, started the Civil Rights movement and the Sexual Revolution. I hate to say it, but we can't compete. No one is going to be writing Greatest Generation books about...
...this election year, Bush embraced Bob Jones University in South Carolina and refused to criticize the school's ban on inter-racial dating. Gore embraced the family of James Byrd, and vowed to fight for a Hate Crimes Prevention Act. The contrast could not be clearer...
...that they could invest institutional money in ethnic markets, receive a nice return and do some good along the way--that was a challenge," says McCoy. It helped that he was offering not only a profitable opportunity but also a way for banks to comply with the Community Reinvestment Act, a federal law requiring them to provide money for low- and moderate-income communities...
...Even given that apparent advantage, Gore faces an unenviable challenge; he's got to identify and act upon a heretofore undiscovered middle ground between the somewhat repellent know-it-all Al Gore and Al Gore, hesitant beta male...