Word: dealing
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...hard to teach people to write because it is hard to teach them to have something to say," Rooney said. "It is easy for teachers to deal with grammar, which can be easily corrected, but you cannot teach someone to have a clear opinion...
...Then the Gore campaign came on. And I am saying to myself, 'Look at that kiss. Isn't that going to turn people off? And listen to his program--money for everything, the old-style New Deal.' Three days later, I find out I was wrong...
...loss of the Congress straitjacketed Clinton from being able to fight for traditional Democratic goals and made him a much more tempered version of his original self. Ideally, assume he keeps the Congress in 1994, but it is really close, so that he has to deal with the Republicans and doesn't have a liberal majority. He responds to the pressures for a balanced budget with versions of that, and of welfare reform, that are less harsh, and there's no impeachment. Once the budget is balanced and the economy is prosperous, then his liberal instincts come back...
...story appeared about the various names on Gore's short list of vice-presidential candidates. Many in the campaign suspected Shrum and Devine of waging a campaign for another client of theirs, Senator John Edwards of North Carolina. A campaign official says they had even made a deal with one of the networks to provide "B roll" (pretty footage of their man) if Edwards were selected. Many staff members saved their sharpest blades for Shrum, who never moved to Nashville, who had little history with the candidate and who seemed to be always keeping an eye out for himself...
...Lott says he's not worried, and he's already aiming to work more closely with the Democrats. "You have to deal with the reality of what you can get done," he said in an interview with TIME last Friday. "When I first came to Congress, my attitude was, Give me the whole loaf or I want nothing. Now if I can get four or five slices, I'll take that...