Word: fears
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Tony Coelho was Al Gore's dark side, a champion fund-raiser and short-tempered manager who couldn't even go on the Sunday talkies for fear of getting asked about the pending State and Justice Department investigations into his ethics...
...start paying attention? "Some would say, 'What's taken him so long?'," says Tumulty. The plan: Stick to the positive stuff, the vision stuff, the I-am-Al-Gore stuff until August. Get the voters to feel comfortable with Gore as economic steward. And then hit 'em with the fear and loathing - the "risky scheme" Gore - all fall...
Somebody wanted Vuk Draskovic dead, but it may not have been Slobodan Milosevic - after all, the Serbian strongman has little reason to fear the veteran opposition leader these days. In contrast to the string of professional hits that have eliminated both friend and foe of the Milosevic regime over the past year, Friday's attempt on Draskovic was an amateurish hit-or-miss affair, the gunmen spraying the opposition leader's holiday apartment with automatic rifle fire while he was vacationing in Montenegro. But not even an attempt on his life is likely to restore his declining political fortunes...
...both sides in working together, both Pyongyang and Seoul have an interest in taking things very slowly," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "North Korea wants to limit the impact of outside contact on its closed ideological system, while South Korea is getting over an economic slump and would fear being overburdened by any sudden move to reunification. They're more likely to take incremental steps, over many years, rather than rush into a Germany-type scenario." Post-Cold War realignments that have seen both Russia and China abandoning their traditional hostility to Seoul and building ever-closer relations with...
...squeezed from below as well." It's a squeeze that has brought on a psychic shortness of breath: the 1997 National Study of the Changing Workforce, comparing the attitudes of men and women ages 46 to 51 with a similar cadre studied in 1977, exposed the hollowness and the fear creeping up on the leading-edge boomers: in the original survey more than half felt it highly unlikely they'd soon lose their jobs; in the recent survey barely a quarter felt so comfortable...