Word: fielding
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Meanwhile, out on the campaign trail, despite the flames and sparks, all four leading candidates have a way of sounding a lot like Clinton as they leave ideological purity to Gary Bauer and Alan Keyes and trundle down the center of the field. Bush and Gore both call for the deployment of faith-based organizations to backstop government; Bradley and McCain share examples of campaign-finance abominations. By last week, McCain was even borrowing Gore's class-war vocabulary to attack Bush's tax plan. Both sides have ceded ground: the Democrats are each pushing health-care plans that...
...Question, first broadcast by CBS on June 7, 1955. Producer Louis Cowan had dreamed up the idea and persuaded Revlon, without much difficulty, to sponsor it. The concept seemed promising: present ordinary Americans who happen to possess extraordinary expertise in a single field. Put these contestants through a series of questions that grow more difficult the more they win. After $4,000, contestants return each week to face a question that will double their money if they get it right. At $8,000, they are put in an isolation booth so that studio audiences won't distract or coach them...
...also said she hopes to begin a "living-donor program" that transplants parts of the liver from one living person into the liver of another. Her center, she said, has recruited an expert in this field...
...population, and destroy it. Russia blames those militants for terrorist attacks in Russia and attempts to foment a separatist rebellion in neighboring Dagestan, as well as for the atmosphere of chaos and criminality that has prevailed in Chechnya over the past three years. But Moscow's methods in the field have been those of conventional warfare, bringing overwhelming force to bear in order to capture territory. And the art of guerrilla warfare is not to hold territory when faced with overwhelming odds, but instead to allow an enemy in, and then through constant ambushes and surprise attacks make the cost...
Huidekoper says, for example, that if the University had strictly adhered to its plan of five years ago, much less money would have gone to the now-hot field of information technology...