Word: approached
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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When Gore and his team drew up their health-care plan late last summer, the Vice President had said no to aides who wanted to make it more ambitious. Gore insisted on an incremental approach that would strike people as realistic and prove he had learned the lessons of 1994. He ended up with a modest proposal that focused on insuring children. But his advisers were troubled. Bradley had been talking about health care all summer; he was clearly going to promise coverage for all or nearly all Americans. Health care remained a huge problem for millions, and Gore...
...wasn't always a pretty sight. He often seemed as hyper and needy as a ninth-grader on a first date. But at least voters realized that he was truly, madly, deeply committed to winning, and they liked that about him. Bradley's cool, take-it-or-leave-it approach to politicking began to pale by comparison...
...feds found scholars of this approach on the West Coast too. A pair of California pharmacy students and a friend, two of whom face a criminal trial next month, allegedly logged on to computer terminals at UCLA's biomedical library and planted more than 500 messages on a variety of hot websites to pump up the stock of NEI Webworld Inc., a bankrupt commercial-printing firm in Dallas...
Like its 1996 predecessor, HBO's If These Walls Could Talk 2 (various dates in March) takes a high-concept approach--three stories set in one house in three decades--to a high-profile issue: in the first, abortion; here, lesbianism. (Walls 3 will no doubt treat health-care reform.) Like its forebear, this uneven but worthwhile film is less about sex than its aftermath. In "1961," Vanessa Redgrave, whose lover of 50 years has died, meets the woman's nephew, arrived to dispose of the house he's inherited and clueless about the lifestyle of his "maiden aunt." Redgrave...
...think there is any team in the country that can beat us," said Shewchuk, who leads the conference with a scoring clip of 3.04 points per game. "We know that other teams play that much harder once the playoffs start, but we are not going to change our approach against St. Lawrence...