Word: less
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...gangs are less visible now, so visitors enjoying Vietnamese food in Cabramatta may never be aware that Sydney's heroin trade has its capital here; few diners in Chinatown could identify a member of Hong Kong's ruthless triads; unless they're very unlucky-or foolish-revelers can blithely blow their spending money in the strip clubs and girlie bars of Kings Cross without encountering the standover men and drug dealers who haunt the shadows...
Knight has publicly stated that he would coach basketball tomorrow if offered the right position. Realistically, however, it is unlikely that the Harvard job fits his criteria, and it is even less likely that he would be offered the job in the first place. On the other hand, hiring Knight would, for once, put the fear of God into Princeton...
...less established states, the question is, 'How do you mobilize students to go door to door?'" he said. "How do you get recognized by the state leaders...
...Florida, where Gore was probably best known for his Elian Gonzalez gaffe, is in play after all. At the heart of the struggle is the McCollum-Nelson contest. It could determine nothing less than whether Democrats can thwart Republican hegemony in a burgeoning, bellwether state that has the nation's fourth largest number of electoral votes (25) and help Gore pull off a coup against the Bush dynasty that might tip the presidential race...
...benefited among Jewish "condo commandos" from Gore's choice of Joseph Lieberman as a running mate and from the ticket's emphasis on providing prescription-drug coverage under Medicare. But the former six-term Congressman from Florida's space coast (he once rode the space shuttle) has focused less on national issues than on state concerns such as hurricanes. He admits his clashes with the insurance lobby over exorbitant storm coverage "have definitely reconsolidated" the state's fraying Democratic base. Nelson, with his TV-anchorman looks, is also aided by the impeachment-trial image of the owlish McCollum lecturing like...