Word: manning
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...man offered passersby cups of free vegetarian soup from a large metal pot. Another passed out chunks of brown bread...
...tall, well-dressed middle-aged man exited Nike carrying a shopping bag, a protestor addressed him with, "Thanks for supporting class-ism. Did you know Nike employs little children?" The man walked away quickly...
...course, has been presumptive since the GOP convention, and Powell has been hovering at Bush's shoulder like a guardian angel for as long as Bush has been able to drop the hint. Powell is a minority Republican who talks like a Democrat, a national amalgam, a military man who could have been a unifying Ike but didn't like politics enough to run. He's a perfect combination of the the elder Bush's Gulf War and the younger's "compassionate conservatism," and he's just prickly enough with his adopted party to be believable...
...nice to know that my news-themed content just got the inside track (don't tell the FTC I said that) to some 25 million paying subscribers. And it's nice to think that my stock in this new new-media behemoth could one day make me a man of above-average wealth - as soon the next speculative bubble hits NASDAQ. (I have one word for you: broadband...
...They're offering to soften the closure. It's like that story about the rabbi whose approached by a man complaining that his house is too small, and the rabbi advises him to keep a goat, and then a cow, and then a horse and so on inside the house - and then he advises the man to remove them one by one, and the man feels better about how much space he has. This is what's happening here. I don't believe that Barak is in a position to give Arafat something dramatic on Jerusalem or on the settlements...