Word: less
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...clear: Nobody's saying the vice president has to be able to compete in a triathlon while he's in office. But he really should be able to fulfill another, less challenging job requirement: He should be able to stay alive. And while Cheney is hardly lingering on death's door - doctors assure us he's not even in death's neighborhood - the GOP's decision to present a 59-year-old with serious cardiac health issues as the best candidate to play back-up to a younger, fitter presidential candidate is raising eyebrows in the medical community...
...same religious passion that drives Israel's insistence that it be recognized as the sovereign power over all of the Holy City also makes holding onto Jerusalem an irrefutable imperative not just for Palestinians, but for all Arabs. And any Palestinian or Arab leader who settles for anything less is unlikely to survive politically - perhaps even physically...
They were right: For two years, and in ever-increasing measures, the City of Brotherly love has undergone the urban equivalent of a frenzied (and somewhat haphazard) spring cleaning, as crews polish highly visible districts to a reflective shine and sweep less promising areas under a carpet of anonymity. (Actually, anonymity may be reserved for the lucky neighborhoods: Residents of Philadelphia's struggling Logan triangle were probably wishing for relative invisibility last week when city bulldozers started plowing the neighborhood's modest 80-year-old houses, crumbling the homes into the landfill that had threatened to swallow them for years...
...George Bush Sr. tapped Cheney to be secretary of defense, and the nomination swept through Congress in less than two weeks. Cheney's tenure at the Defense Department was eventful; he appointed General Colin Powell to serve as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the two men worked together during the Persian Gulf War. Cheney left the Cabinet in January 1993, as the Clinton administration began...
...introduction play out in the press and watch Philadelphia on cable TV. See who salutes, and measure the bounce that the Bush-Cheney ticket - a dreamy promise of a return to the Bush family's salad days - gets in the polls. Average is 6-10 percent, anything more or less will throw Gore into a paroxysm of calculation...