Word: everly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Bush was clearly more comfortable answering questions from voters than he has ever been giving speeches, and the format energized him. He would stand in front of the microphone, his body slightly hunched and his arms bent as if he were a boxer waiting to slap down his opponent's best shot. He was able to show off his expertise on education policy and say things like "I've been a tort-reformin' Governor and I'll be a tort-reformin' President!" and hear applause in response. "I like this," he told an adviser...
...Cemetery. But both men are eternally present in this race. In the Bush and McCain clans, expectations are stamped in the genetic code, assumed at birth, resented in adolescence like hair that won't lie flat or legs too short for basketball. Each generation seemed to raise the stakes ever higher. McCain, whose family traces its martial roots back to Charlemagne, entered the Navy as the son and grandson of four-star admirals. Bush, whose family is distantly connected to the Queen of England, entered national politics the son of a President and grandson of a Senator. Both men were...
...always been a strong suspicion in popular culture--think Chinatown or L.A. Confidential--that Los Angeles cops were quietly up to no good, and there have been some dark real-life incidents, like the police beating of Rodney King. But L.A. is embroiled in its biggest police scandal ever, one that makes Joseph Wambaugh read like tepid tea. Authorities have identified 40 people who were wrongly convicted, and public defenders are reviewing 4,000 more cases. The cops "are just a gang with the law on their side," says Gerardo ("Clever") Lopez, a former gang member. "People are finally seeing...
...China will have the second largest population of Web surfers in the world, after the U.S., by 2005. Such a frenetic buildup would delight most governments. It terrifies Beijing's officials, who fear the Net will vaporize their power over the masses. "It is not like anything they have ever experienced before," says Ding...
...withstand the financial exposure, the Jaffray suit says, Lloyd's launched its biggest recruitment drive ever. Veddy British recruiters fanned out across the U.S., enlisting the aid of big brokers like E.F. Hutton (now part of Citigroup) to line up prospects. The number of Names soared from about 6,000 in the mid-1960s to 14,000 in 1978 and exceeded 34,000 by the late 1980s. These were discount Names too, Lloyd's having lowered the net worth needed to become a Name to substantially below $1 million. The lower bar gave entry to investors such as Shirley Cook...