Word: get
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Gore, when he's trying to get his hands around something important, goes through two stages. In the first, he gobbles up facts and ideas, holding information against theory and gauging how the two fit. "When working on international economics, Gore will think about everything from business-management theory to chemical thermodynamics to financial-market theory, all in the space of a 20-minute speech-preparation meeting," says Harvard law professor Christopher Edley, an occasional adviser. Gore studies an issue until he can argue all sides with such certainty that aides sometimes have no idea which one he will ultimately...
...with Clinton, finds himself in a dead heat for an office he should take in a walk. The couples were together for the first time since the Democratic Convention, attending the funeral of Governor Mel Carnahan. There were the obligatory air kisses and handshakes, followed by awkward efforts to get away from one another as fast as possible...
...change is in order: the stream has been crossed, the horse should buck, throw off the old and get a new rider, one worthy of it. Of us. That man in this race would be Bush, the gentleman from Texas...
...safe for Gore (Massachusetts, New York) and safe for Bush (Texas, Colorado) urging progressives there to vote for Nader since the outcome there is a foregone conclusion. That strategy is meant to help Nader achieve his goal of securing 5% of the national vote so his Green Party can get federal matching funds in 2004. Another one that has popped up on the Web at nadertrader.org implores, "If you live in a swing state, contact a Gore-voting friend in a strongly Bush-leaning state and informally agree that your friend will vote for Nader, while you will vote...
While they hobnobbed, the journalists set about losing their official minders to get an unfettered glimpse of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, which is mired in food, energy and medical shortages. Outside a subway entrance a young man squatted beside a steaming pot, gingerly pouring boiling water over the limp corpse of an unskinned dog. In a downtown hospital, all the lights were out except for those in the foyer that illuminated the colorful portrait of Kim Jong Il and his father Kim Il Sung. The D.P.R.K. lost an estimated half a million people to famine...