Word: centralization
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...just another example of low-road behavior. Bush's team said he wouldn't be calling a halt to his talk of "restoring honor and integrity" to the White House, but both his advisers and Republicans in Washington are worried that they have been robbed of one of their central themes. They concede that choosing Lieberman is the smartest thing Gore has done in this campaign, and what happened to Bush on the trail last week helps explain why--because Bush came close to calling a truce in the character...
...combination of a mild winter, a broiling summer and outbreaks of dry thunderstorms that have produced much lightning but little rain has plagued Montana and neighboring states with fires of a ferocity not seen for half a century. From the central mountains to the western valleys, more than 50 homes have burned as well as 300,000 acres (and counting) of kindling-dry timber. Besides forcing thousands to evacuate, the flames brought down power lines and melted cars and trucks. Last week 6 million acres of public land were closed to civilians by order of the Governor, and each...
There is, to be sure, a central and potentially grisly mystery set forth in the book's opening pages and resolved only at the end. In 1919, while serving as a nurse in a Milwaukee hospital for severely wounded soldiers, Amanda Starkey suffers some sort of nervous indisposition and goes home to rest at her parents' farm in rural Wisconsin. They have both recently died, victims of the 1918 flu epidemic. The only people living there now are Mathilda Neumann, Amanda's younger sister, and Mattie's three-year-old daughter Ruth. Carl Neumann, the husband and father, is still...
...Johnson and Chuck Robb, the Kennedys and a Lawford or two, as well as model Christie Brinkley, fresh from casting her vote to nominate Al Gore as part of the New York delegation. There were newsies/talk show hosts too, like Bill Maher of "Politically Incorrect," Jon Stewart of Comedy Central and former Washington Post and TIME mag man Carl Bernstein (now running Evote)as well as editor Frank Lalli of George magazine, which cohosted the fund-raiser along with the Creative Coalition and some no-name types like George Clooney, Melanie Griffith, Goldie Hawn, Samuel L. Jackson, Quentin Tarantino, John...
...place in the heartland populated by blue-collar "working families" - this town of 23,000 next to Lake Erie is home to Monroe shock absorbers and a Ford parts plant - with a picturesque town square. The backdrop was a City Hall that could have been shipped in from Central Properties (with a church off the right), and organizers rounded up some 10,000 people who sweated, and in some cases fainted, in the steamy midwestern heat. Although it's the biggest crowd Gore has had in days, his staff has to wonder: Were they here for Al, or for Elvis...