Word: chaotically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dole and his wife discuss any names. Instead something worse happened: news of the Doles' grumbling spread through Republican circles, setting off a round of maneuvering and speculation about whether Dole, a man who has normally resisted taking advice, could find someone to impose order on his sometimes chaotic bid for the presidency. Explained a campaign official: "Dole will do what Dole does, retreat to the Senate and think about it for a while...
Such speeches could resonate, but the chaotic process that produces them is evidence that the candidate is still not in control of his campaign. There is still no cogent internal process for drafting, editing and winning the candidate's approval of drafts. Last Friday's address, for instance, was subcontracted to a private company. Meanwhile, Dole's economic advisers remain deeply split over how far Dole should go on trade. Some, like Robert Lighthizer, want to take a tough line with Japan and China; others, with closer ties to the ceos who have helped fund the Dole campaign, want...
...idea of a conflict between the worlds of matter and spirit inspired Mani, a member of a Christian sect in 3rd century Mesopotamia. He saw the cosmos as divided between opposing forces: light and dark, good and evil, spirit and matter. Our age, he said, was chaotic because darkness had swallowed up portions of the light. But, he said, Jesus came into the world as part of a battle to distill light from the darkness. This dualistic philosophy was Manichaeism, and it would find adherents from North Africa to southern China...
...graded on their compliance with the law, low scores resulting in lowered federal aid and increased supervision. "Clinton is seizing the crime issue," says TIME's Elaine Rivera. "He's attempting to show how tough he is on crime and heading the Republicans off." But in the often chaotic world of public housing, Rivera notes, the law may be extremely difficult to enforce...
Lenat may have the last word--at least for now. With its 10-year head start over Cog, the CYC project is much closer to spinning off practical applications, and its timing couldn't be better. The World Wide Web's chaotic infobloom is starting to strain the limits of today's popular but simpleminded search engines (which work, for the most part, by matching up key words). But CYC, with its ability to make commonsensical leaps of logic, can connect a request, say, for pictures of "happy people" with the caption, "A man watching his daughter learn to walk...