Word: approaching
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...social responsibility defines our politics and our identity. Oddly, this makes Canadians an extremely passionate people about their country, fellow citizens and society. If you are planning to seek asylum up North from the results of this insipid election, I advise you to prepare yourself for a completely different approach. Canada, after all, is a country where we'll use anything to stay warm--even political debates...
Another nominee might have added some fabric softener after the primaries, concentrated on more centrist stuff, and a lot of senior Republicans argued privately for Bush to do just that, to pick up John McCain's more austere economic approach instead, emphasize debt reduction and iron out the wrinkles in the tax plan. But Bush held fast because he believed he alone, not his royal mathematicians, had broken the code, concocted a proposal that was big enough to please his base and fair enough to satisfy the middle. Over time he got better at talking about it; he stopped confusing...
...Durk Jager, who was forced out in June, were sunk by overly rosy earnings projections. In both cases, the chief executive predicted better earnings than he could deliver--twice in Jager's case, three times in McGinn's. At Gillette, director Warren Buffett, famous for his long-term approach, couldn't wait forever for the stock to come around. So he moved...
That sort of calm, reasoned approach sounds lovely, but what about all the parents and teens so frazzled from running from work to home--or from homework to a job--that they barely see one another? "When my twins were teens, we had to go out to eat to be in a different setting where we weren't caught up in everyday household distractions," Wolvin says...
...enough to run against. With those clothes, Gore could run as a dull Clark Kent whose biggest sin would be his lumbering and pious integrity. The Bush team had to find a way to make this uncharismatic cipher take on the hue of Clinton. Gore's chameleon-like approach to the campaign played into their hands...