Word: offing
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Gore lives in those weeds. On health care, he and his staff struggled to develop a program throughout the summer, talking about the future of medicine, how the human-genome project would be completed in his first term, how it could transform the health-care landscape. On Aug. 13 they...
For the Vice President, communing with the genome led to the child-health-insurance decision. Abstractions beget decisions about real people; facts show him the way. He loves to challenge his staff--"Where'd you get that fact? How do you know it's true?"--and that habit of mind...
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So Gore's people are pushing precinct captains to make more phone calls, getting the unions revved up and bringing in planeloads of surrogates--Dick Gephardt and Tom Daschle; Ted Kennedy in the heavily Catholic strongholds of Dubuque and Cedar Rapids--to rally the troops. If Bradley loses by just...
But perhaps a more striking example of his social disability is the moment when Gore broke into song with Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy, who had just endorsed him. In Gore's defense, Kennedy kind of put him on the spot. After a meeting with senior citizens at a housing complex...