Word: approaching
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...contrasting as the two teams are in their approach to the game, both the Crimson and Big Red understand the importance of tomorrow's contest...
...Amazonas, next door to Par?, would be the least deforested region in the ecosystem?especially since in earlier administrations the Governor, Amazonino Mendes, had offered to hand out chain saws to anyone wanting one, in order to spur land clearing. (In recent years, Mendes has adopted a slightly softer approach toward the forest.) Manaus, the capital of Amazonas, has grown rapidly in wealth and size in the past 10 years, but without massive tree cutting in surrounding areas. Local soils are notoriously bad, for one thing, which discourages agriculture, and besides, most immigrants can make more money in town...
...number of doctors who can dispense the drug to the same number who already perform abortions. Moreover, physicians wishing to prescribe RU-486 must comply with a broad range of often archaic state laws regulating surgical abortions; laws whose stipulations are often difficult to apply to this radical new approach to the procedure...
...subject of "missed opportunities" has become one of George W. Bush's favorite lines of attack - a pithy way to hit a two-term incumbent veep when starts bragging about his approach to problems yet unsolved. But in a debate in which Bush mostly held up under fire from the heavily favored Gore, the Texas governor had a few missed opportunities of his own. Not flubs, not slip-ups - they're easy to find on both sides - but chances to turn Gore's eager aggressiveness against him. And maybe even win the thing...
...defensive answer leaves Gore another retort - "Well, they don't" - that leaves Bush looking like he hasn't been reading the papers. The Russians have in fact gone with a fuzzy "it's up to the Serbs" approach," which is arguably somewhere in between. But the lasting impression is of Bush taking the hit in silence because he's not quite sure of the details...