Word: exceptionally
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...think myself, except in a very general sense, that we'll be able to say, in terms of numbers or anything, exactly what happened," May said. "Everyone is in agreement that whatever happened, it was nothing like My Lai [a massacre in Vietnam]. It was not a deliberate atrocity. Whatever happened was incidental to a panicked retreat...
This one is not about war (except in very recent fears about the Middle East) and not about the economy (except in apprehensions that this prosperity is headed, somewhere, for a comeuppance). This campaign is about the geriatric package (Medicare, Social Security, prescription drugs), about the role of government (bigger? smaller?), about abortion (the anxiety about the woman's right to terminate early life coming to focus in geriatric calculations - several of those Supreme Court Justices are getting long in the tooth). Above all, it is about the imperfections of the candidates' personalities...
...have time to sit down all afternoon for a meeting when we have a job to do," he says. "The meetings were helpful except they were time consuming, and we didn't have the time...
...politicking in the most old-fashioned sense of the word, except computers are doing much of the work that ward bosses used to. At Gore headquarters, data come together in a computer-generated image called the G2K Targeting Map, on which cities and states that present opportunities and require immediate attention glow an intense blue. The computer factors in poll numbers, historic Democratic performance, dates of and voter response to previous visits by the candidate, his running mate, family members or other surrogates. It highlights places that may respond to a sudden infusion of ad money or to "free media...
...Ramallah that had been spouting anti-Israeli invective, a police building in the Gaza Strip used by Arafat's Tanzim paramilitary (which has orchestrated much of the recent unrest) and a Gaza port where the 12 boats of the Palestinian navy were docked. The last was an odd choice, except for the fact that it was just 100 yds. from Arafat's office. Later, the Israelis attacked the police academy in Jericho, after Palestinians torched an ancient synagogue there. In each case the Israelis notified Palestinian officials of the site selected before the Cobras flew in, so that it could...