Word: formatting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Although the events' date, format and speakers remain undetermined, the motion to sponsor the events--and allocate $100 for event publicity--passed with only two dissenting votes...
...quality time with his family, said he might now make another album, but he doesn't exactly sound like a man brimming with confidence. "Making music always does excite me, but I don't know if as a songwriter I have it in me. As an artist--has the format passed me by? Has my age taken me to a place where I can't compete?" If only melancholy and self-doubt made for good country music...
...interactive format of the show allowed students to actively question and engage the panelists in debate and on the issues...
...notion that Bush was suggesting that some subjects, such as the length of Gore's tax plan, are best debated in the language of numbers, whereas actual statistics about how much money will be spent on specific programs are simply too crass to be repeated in the exalted format of a presidential debate. This argument didn't make terribly much sense either, since a tax plan is actually composed of a collection of numbers, and so it seems slightly disingenuous to discuss only the vaguest of guiding principles while masking the actual outcome...
...format suited Gore; his footwork, carriage and impressively human gesticulations left Bush looking a little wan and hunched, and he scored a layup by explaining Bush's education policy for him. But the vice president never stole the show. Bush, after a nervous beginning in which he managed to botch his Carnahan-condolence line (though at least it was brief - Gore's sounded like an Oscar speech), settled down. He boiled down the tax cut/estate tax question resoundingly ("It's a fairness issue. It's an issue of principle, not politics") and delivered suitably grave response to the death penalty...