Word: making
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...took care to invite newcomers to sit at the counter with her regular customers. Her deli is the only spot in town where business executives would mix with construction workers. When her brain tumor confined her to a wheelchair, she keep working, and the customers kept coming, choosing to make their own sandwiches rather than go elsewhere...
Because I think a Bush presidency would have more establishment legitimacy than a Gore presidency, I won't make reference to the chief executive's power to actualize his agenda. But 80 percent of the country say they'll nominally support whomever is declared the winner. As for the split Congress, my unsubtle view is that the 50-50 Senate has a moderate Republican bias. There is political capital for campaign finance reform. It might happen. Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) could be wise to follow a pragmatic, moderate course of action...
...activists. The federal government and its bureaucracy have a tendency to creatively and arbitrarily mess things up, but, as we've seen, devolving power to state and local officials doesn't solve the problem of homosapient-ism, which is to say that human beings have biases, perspectives, quirks, and make errors. (Theresa LePore, a Democrat, tried to help seniors read the ballot in Palm Beach by making the type-face bolder. In doing so, she had to re-arrange candidate's names. That might have cost her candidate the presidency.) Good intentions, unstable consequences. A fudged solution...
...catalyzed by the quintessential display of competitive fear--an election night mistake with political agency. I'm not sure whether journalistic decision-makers will actually adhere to any self-imposed guidelines to not report election results until polls close (or until votes are counted). Competition and the Internet might make that unfeasable. Would you force yourself to wait until 8 p.m. to see who wins Florida in 2004 if it was already posted on Slate.com or The Drudge Report...
...Parks' action showed that one person who really has a commitment can make a difference," said panelist Dorothy Height, who is chair and president of Emerita, the national council of Negro women...