Word: approaching
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...people close to him say Gore knows the dangers of his populist approach, but they say he has to stand for something, and Gore the scrapper is the role that worked for the Veep against Bradley last winter. In some ways, it's a role he has been comfortable with, as the son of a waitress and a Senator known for his fiery defense of Tennessee farmers. Besides, Gore tried sensible centrism a year ago, with lots of detailed, 10-point plans on teacher testing and crime prevention and tax cuts, and came off sounding like a pale Clinton...
Down in Austin, Texas, Bush aides say Gore's new approach makes a certain sense for someone in his predicament, but can't win him the election. The Governor's strategists concede that working families are swing, but they also believe, as one said, that "they are sick of what's going on in Washington." Another Bush adviser allowed that Gore can get some of the waitress moms, but Bush has a solid lock on their husbands. Bush's huge lead among working-class men, he argues, is the chief reason the Governor is ahead in states where Gore should...
...paddled toward them slowly, noiselessly, and they, with edgy courtesy, worked obliquely away from my approach. I followed relentlessly, without a sound. At last when they judged that I insisted on being a pain in the neck, they did what I had waited for them to do: They did not fluster and flap up splashily in the way that, say, ducks do when disturbed; rather, they did the loon thing - the magic act. One after another, they elegantly beaked down and vanished without a trace. Poof! Submarines indeed. They dematerialized; they passed miraculously into the universe below...
...matter how well intended they are, controlled-drinking programs like Moderation Management are dangerous and deluding for problem drinkers. This approach provides a welcome excuse to keep drinking and drinking. Controlled-drinking efforts ignore the physiological fact that alcohol races to the centers of the brain for judgment and control, quickly diminishing the ability and desire to control drinking. JAMES F. GARVIN, FOUNDER The Natural High Society Albuquerque...
...Sydney, Pedro and his teammates (including potential medalists Jason Morris, a 1992 silver winner at 81 kg [178 lbs.], Brian Olson at 90 kg [198 lbs.] and Hillary Wolf in the women's 52 kg [115 lbs.]) will be dealing with two distinct judo styles. The traditional Asian approach emphasizes speed and balance in order to knock the other judoka over. "With the Japanese and the Koreans there'll be a lot of space. It's a free-flowing, let's-see-who-can-throw-the-other-guy type of thing," says Pedro...