Word: less
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...because of his conservative stances on school vouchers and Social Security and his hawkish enthusiasm for the military. And Lieberman is unquestionably conservative--for an ethnic Jew. Meanwhile, some Orthodox Jews wondered aloud whether his liberal support for gay rights and his unwaveringly abortion rights voting record made him less authentically Orthodox. On these issues, Lieberman is well to the left of most religious Jews...
...campaign trail." Because although nobody's likely to fire missiles at the U.S. anytime soon, that won't deter Governor Bush from mercilessly beating up on the Clinton administration's ambivalence over the system. And the latest leaked intelligence finding by the nation's spy agencies is less likely to help President Clinton make up his mind than it is to exacerbate his dilemma...
...allow a man carte blanche with junk food menus and then have a medic administer a lethal injection, or we simply serve him that day's fried chicken and then shoot him in the head, the act is, in essence, the same. The difference, in the end, may have less to do with the condemned man's perception than it does with the way his executioners - and the society that orders them to kill its capital convicts - experience his death...
...always, this issue gains special weight in a presidential election year. And the American public is increasingly uneasy with the idea of executing mentally retarded inmates; even in Texas, support for this execution is less than enthusiastic. Bush, who has effectively washed his hands of Cruz's case, may yet be haunted by the questions raised by the pending execution. Just as Bill Clinton showed himself to be "a new Democrat" when he bared his law enforcement chops and flew home to oversee the 1992 execution of brain-damaged Arkansas inmate Rickey Ray Rector, George W. Bush is currently confronted...
...problem for Verizon management, of course, is that this isn't the pre-Norma Rae era, when the media were less clued in to labor issues and management could double-talk their way through negotiations without sustaining any serious damage. And of course, today's tight labor market gives workers' demands a great deal more economic weight. The Verizon workers who walked out Monday know they've got considerable clout - after all, if management can't find a way to get them back to work soon, Verizon corporate types could have the whole of New York City to contend with...