Word: helpful
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...possibility that I might not survive the illness I had, and I wanted to have a will and a living will." Michaels, 71, had read in the paper that the City University of New York (CUNY) had an elder-law clinic. "They came here to my home to help me," she says, still amazed. "The professor was very concerned about me, that I couldn't get to my phone, that I was bedridden. He came back with a long extension wire and put it on the phone." They also took care of her legal problems. Admits Michaels: "I was very...
...argue Gore advisers. "Every time you mention the party, take credit or talk about the past, you lose swing voters," says a Gore partisan of how the Vice President's consultants answer his concerns. "They say that stuff only appeals to the base." Still, Gore could use a little help there. Bush has 88% support from Republicans, while Gore currently has only 83% of Democrats, according to a TIME/CNN poll...
...dilemma on which Gore chews--over which, I suspect, he gnashes his teeth--is this: whether to go to the Oval Office and say, "Mr. President, I need help. Unless you come out and start campaigning for me--now!--I am going to lose this election. And if I lose, there goes the vindication of the Clinton years. There goes the legacy...
...noon I prayed at the mosque. After the prayer a march started and went through the city of Ramallah and al-Bireh. The protesters condemned the Sharm el-Sheikh accord. The protesters arrived at the confrontation line. The occupation soldiers attacked them. We heard youths asking for help. We did not hear the sounds of gunfire. The Israeli soldiers used guns with silencers. We were unable to do the late-afternoon prayer in a mosque, so we prayed in the open. We tried to avoid being shot by snipers at the City Inn Hotel and the building next...
Xerox recognizes this, and part of Thoman's mandate was, in fact, to turn the company from a seller of boxes to a seller of services, a so-called solutions provider like IBM that would help bewildered companies manage their document flow. That is easier said than done. Apart from the challenge of taking on established powerhouses like IBM and EDS, Xerox has had to deal with a perception problem. "Xerox, as a brand, is so associated with copying that it's almost like Kleenex trying to sell paper towels," notes Charlie Corr, a group director at Cap Ventures...