Word: basing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...George W. Bush has a tic that drives his critics crazy, it is his cocky impression of a self-made man. Texas Democrat Jim Hightower tossed off a lethal line about the father: that he was "born on third base and thought he hit a triple," which more than one adversary has applied to the son. Without the family connections, they argue, he would never have got into such elite schools, or found a slot in the National Guard during Vietnam, or got those jobs in the oil business or been given a second glance in politics...
...years learning to fly fighter jets. By that time the F-102 was increasingly obsolete, so there was not much chance he would ever be called to serve overseas. The duty left him time to work on various political campaigns and even have a quick leave from his base when a plane arrived to fly him to Washington for a date with Tricia Nixon. But if he was using the Guard to avoid more onerous military service, the Guard was not above using the famous son as well. He was their antidrug poster boy: "George Walker Bush is one member...
BUSH: It was a death of a thousand cuts, and it took a thousand to defeat him. He couldn't get his base intact. And the cause of that was breaking the "read my lips" tax pledge...
...estimated to affect 1 percent of the population worldwide. Deep within the bowels of NIMH, our effort to climb to the seat of the mind had been relegated to a lab in the windowless basement--we spend our days isolating and sequencing DNA. We look for changes in the base pair sequences, called nucleotide polymorphisms, that might characterize people suffering from these disorders. Weeks might go into the process of finding a G (guanine) replaced by a C (cytosine) on a schizophrenia susceptibility gene...
...investigating psychiatric illness. There is little question that people's mental states are the product of both genetic and environmental influences; nature and nurture co-choreograph our intellectual steps and missteps. Still, it often seems superficial and reductionist to explain complex mental machinations with a chromosome number and base substitution. How can we possibly acknowledge the flair of the human thought process by merely pinpointing a genetic locus...