Word: approaching
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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While the Republican candidate stressed his general approach to executive leadership, Gore once again hammered the issues on which he feels most comfortable: a prescription drug benefit under Medicare, the environment, education and Social Security. His anecdotes may have been less powerful than at the Los Angeles convention, but they were still effective, especially that of a Florida high school student whose classroom is too crowded to provide her a desk. Gore's control of specifics were again impressive, and his responses to questions regarding the Serbian election, oil reserves and energy policy, RU-486 and the Supreme Court were...
...good education for all children? The centerpiece of Gore's agenda is ensuring that every child in America has high-quality health care coverage within the next four years. He would spend $50 billion to make available universal preschool to every child. Bush fails to offer a comprehensive approach to health care and early childhood education, which are critical to making sure that kids enter school ready to learn...
...computer has passed an open-ended free-topic Turing test, but I say that we are being too harsh. Just as children progress through the various stages of pre-consciousness to full self-awareness in their toddlerhood, so too computers must slowly approach their sentience. Thus I propose an adjunct to the Turing Test, something that I will immodestly christen the "Greenleaf Test." If a computer can generate sentences that are indistinguishable from political campaign rhetoric, it has passed the Greenleaf test. In other words, if a computer can eventually be indistinguishable from presidential candidates, it has taken its first...
...committee was formed about a year ago, when the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention requested that the Institute of Medicine outline how the U.S. might better approach the issue of AIDS...
...Bryant House exemplifies the studio's approach to affordable housing. After Mockbee asked Bryant and her husband Shepard if he could build a home for them, he introduced the couple to some of the Auburn architecture students assigned to the project. The students quizzed the family about how many bedrooms it needed as well as how much time family members spent in the kitchen, and then started on the house...