Word: helpful
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...women who I blurted it out to convinced me to go public," Delaney-Smith said. "I just remember her message: 'You can help a lot of women.' That was probably the defining comment that made me go public, because I really didn't want...
...complaints that they had to draw a diagram showing where each ticket's punch hole was located. Theresa LePore, the Palm Beach County election supervisor who had signed off on the ballot design, soon arranged for a flyer to be distributed at polling places around the county that would help voters decipher it. LePore, a Democrat, told reporters that day that she had favored the design partly because it permitted larger type that was easier for older voters to read...
...votes. That was when Florida Democratic leaders started working their phones furiously, calling state attorney general Bob Butterworth, Gore's Florida campaign chairman. Butterworth himself was on the phone with senior Gore advisers in Nashville, telling them that the vice president should not concede. "You couldn't help feeling that something was being stolen from us," says a state Democratic chief...
...1970s and '80s. Dubbed the "Castle Ladies," for Ted's former castlelike Glendale, Calif., residence, the women were aspiring filmmakers who lived with Ted and served as the crew - and cast - of his films. "I had this big place, and I thought, well, I could bring them in and help them improve their life.... It was mostly those who had expressed an interest in making film that would come to the castle, and I would teach them." Ted is reticent to talk about his personal involvement with the 60 to 70 women who lived in his home during this period...
...Take up golf. (Well, scratch that.) Get some empathy tips from Clinton. Mow the lawn. Help Albert III with his college applications...