Word: beyond
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...events that comprised the symposium, Clancy cites "Beyond Gender," in which issues such as ethnicity and sexuality became the focus of the discussion, as the session that most surprised...
...least whenever elections are as close as this one. But there was a moment last week when nine lawyers, the Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, brightened rather than blanched American democracy, asking us to look beyond the merely dimpled. Friday was a day unlike any other since the election--unlike the past month of candidates with their dueling speeches and seas of American flags, of squawking pundits on the cable channels, certainly unlike the silly spectacle of the previous day, when news choppers chased a Ryder truck full of ballots as it trundled up a highway for eight hours...
...Bush win would be a stunning public relations defeat for Gore, one that could erode his support in the nation and in Washington. Last week moderate Senate Democrats said they would consider the election finished if the high court rules against Gore. "Nobody has the stomach for this stretching beyond early December," says a senior aide to one Democratic Senator. Even Gore's campaign aides see an unfavorable ruling as a death blow. "They could lock it up for Bush," says a longtime adviser. "For Gore, they could let him live, but they can't lock...
...produce more hybrids. Skyrocketing SUV sales mean the companies' average gas efficiency is declining, so to meet federal rules the manufacturers need ultra-high-mileage vehicles to compensate. Ford's chairman, William Ford, has predicted that hybrids could account for 20% of the U.S. market in a decade. Beyond the need for fuel economy, however, looms the urgency of curbing greenhouse gases--a quarter of which result from car and truck emissions...
...little outside approval of their work. Even Ashbery's ascent to the ranks of "academic poetry" was-and still is-something of a mystery to his underground contemporaries. "Ashbery was even then a hero to most of us," North explains. "However, the idea that he would ever be read beyond this small circle seemed an absolute impossibility. It's hard to remember that before 1976 when he won all sorts of awards [for "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror"] he was a genuine underground figure-and despised by the Academy. The whole thing is still mindboggling...