Word: ground
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...those states now go door to door not only to recruit minorities but also to ensure that they complete all the necessary course work and paperwork to get admitted. And with many public schools complaining that their new teachers are poorly trained, K-16 partnerships give universities a proving ground for their education students...
...generally agreed that the best hope for ousting Saddam remains his health. International sanctions against Iraq are collapsing because European and moderate Arab governments don't believe they're having any positive effect. At the same time, the U.N. arms inspection team is no longer on the ground, which means that nobody quite knows what Saddam?s scientists may be cooking up. The Iraqi dictator seems increasingly cocky. In December he tried his luck at cranking up the oil price, and although that failed, he clearly feels he?s going to break out of the sanctions grip...
...Clinton Legacy: Micromanaging attempts to bring peace to an intractable conflict has proved at best deeply frustrating, and at worst may have exacerbated the conflict. Dick Cheney is on solid ground when he suggests President Clinton may have been pushing too hard at last August's Camp David talks, the failure of which set the fire of the current intifada...
...afford not to do it. This has been Bush's way of softening the fiscal ground ever since the fall. The economy is slowing down. Consumer confidence is fading, the "wealth effect" of the rising stock markets is a pleasant memory, and the best way to head off a recession - consumer spending accounts for two-thirds of U.S. economic activity - is to put some spending money back in the people's pockets...
...gets the high ground...