Word: ground
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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With Americans selecting their president today, this city is busy preparing for what Al Gore '69 hopes will be a victory extravaganza. Ground zero is the War Memorial Plaza at the foot of the state capitol...
...Plaza holds special significance to Gore: he gave the eulogy at his father's funeral here and this summer used the space to announce his ground-breaking selection of Lieberman as a vice presidential candidate--the first Jewish candidate selected for a national ticket...
Palazzo has quietly helped the Crimson ground game more than hold its own. He and Leiszler teamed up to lead the Crimson to a 309-yard running assault two weeks ago against Dartmouth, contributing 79 yards apiece...
...going to do next. But with eight years of boom in the rearview, it's a good bet that the next four will be host to some rocky sailing. Set aside the worst-case scenarios - Bush, dispensing tax breaks to the highest bidder, rides the prosperity into the ground, whooping like Slim Pickens; Gore, horrified at the thought of making money from human and environmental suffering, chokes the economy with regulation - and there's still likely to be the need for an adroit hand at the economic tiller. And that may be a different choice altogether...
...military planes. Still, nobody doubts the significance of the gesture. Not when airliners carrying government officials and businessmen are landing almost daily from Russia, Europe and all over the Arab world (including countries that had fought alongside the U.S. in the Gulf War). And not when Turkey, the staging ground for most U.S. air attacks against Iraq since the Gulf War, moves to reopen a pipeline to pump Baghdad?s oil. This week Baghdad is hosting an international trade fair attended by representatives of some 45 countries - not exactly par for the course for a country subjected to fearsome international...