Word: get
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...course, the outburst may just be the product of too many late nights, frayed nerves and a bitter loss. Anyway, Gore will get his chance to make amends next Tuesday night, when the Gores will host a party for the campaign staff...
...Friday, George W. Bush took another bold step into the reality of his coming administration and had a good fireside lunch with Louisiana senator John Breaux. The new President-elect won't get Breaux as an employee, but he's likely met someone he can work with...
...Thanks for having the real good discussions about what we're trying to do," was about all Breaux had to say. And that was all that needed to be said. Bush didn't get an energy secretary - given the strong signals from Breaux about the topic, he probably didn't even ask - but the photo-op symbolism about "getting things done" across party lines came through loud and clear...
...Unless I get downsized first...
...things come and go, and you can never be sure they won't return. In Armenia, they had a power station of the same design as Chernobyl. And in the years after the explosion, as the Soviet Union reached its lowest ebb and collapsed, the environmentalist movement managed to get that reactor shut down. It was a particularly dangerous one, because in those glorious Soviet times they managed to build a nuclear power plant directly over a geological fault. But eventually, after their bruising war with Azerbaijan and suffering many years of power shortages, the Armenians simply reopened the reactor...