Word: instead
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Jews from Poland" - struggles with the farm her husband has left her and tries to think of something profitable to grow besides tobacco. She complains to a sister-in-law, "We're sitting on some of the richest dirt on this planet, and I'm going to grow drugs instead of food?" And on farms nearby, Garnett Walker III, nearly 80, a widower for eight years, maintains a long-running battle with his neighbor Nannie Rawley, 75, over her refusal to use pesticides on her apple orchards, thereby inundating, he is convinced, his land with bugs...
Gore was the only of the two to show a sense of purposefulness during this debate. He returned often to his most successful themes, arguing that Bush's budget plan doesn't add up and that his tax cut favors the wealthy. Instead of responding to these charges, Bush evaded specifics by calling Gore's attacks "a difference of opinion." He frequently restated his opposition to big government, but did not say how the programs Gore was proposing would be less effective than his more limited agenda, or how an emphasis on state's rights would adequately address the concerns...
...turn to technicalities in order to eschew Gore's attacks. Gore, on the other hand, came across as a skilled debater with a powerful, but not overbearing, control of the facts. Luckily for the viewers, he managed to avoid the numeric quagmire he encountered in the first debate, instead using compelling and memorable comparisons to illustrate his points. Yet Gore did occasionally fail to answer the question he was asked, although he was generally able to return to the subject later...
...Wiesel explicated with a sweetness and urgency that made the question seem infinitely more interesting and immediate than the presidential question before us now. Breaking away from Hosea for a moment, Wiesel suggested that instead of talking politics, the Israeli and Palestinian leaders, Barak and Arafat, ought to sit down and study together...
...country is in a strange mood, filled with unease, and an odd passivity. At one time, a terrorist attack on an American destroyer, killing American sailors, would have brought an explosion of outrage, cries for revenge, Teddy Roosevelt bluster. Instead, the country seems subdued. Too many other anxieties are floating unmoored in the mind - fears about the stock market, about Middle Eastern war, about oil prices, about the possibility that the good-time '90s are about to turn, post-millennium, into their own evil twin. Americans have a sneaking superstition about Clinton: When he goes, the lucky '90s go. What...