Word: pairing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Bush made the biggest decision of his campaign so far says a lot about how he operates. By picking Cheney, he showed he was aware enough of his weaknesses--his lack of patina, his light resume--but confident enough to pair himself with someone who has brainpower and Washington credentials. Taking the arm of an experienced elder is something he learned to do in Texas when, as a neophyte Governor in 1995, he apprenticed himself to Democratic Lieutenant Governor Bob Bullock, the late master of Lone Star politics. Bush is doing the same with Cheney, 59, who, although just five...
...come a long way from Prescott and Dorothy of Greenwich, but the path looked a lot like a huge circle on the morning of his inauguration in 1995. His dad passed the family torch to his firstborn, presenting W. with a pair of cufflinks that his own father Prescott had given him when he went off to war. He had called them "my most prized possession." "At first I didn't think about the continuity, the grandfather part," Bush says, recalling that busy, glorious day. "The main thing I thought was that it was from my dad. He was saying...
...affect 1 percent of the population worldwide. Deep within the bowels of NIMH, our effort to climb to the seat of the mind had been relegated to a lab in the windowless basement--we spend our days isolating and sequencing DNA. We look for changes in the base pair sequences, called nucleotide polymorphisms, that might characterize people suffering from these disorders. Weeks might go into the process of finding a G (guanine) replaced by a C (cytosine) on a schizophrenia susceptibility gene...
...Cambridge resident reported to CPD that unknown person(s) broke her driver's side window and radio antenna off her 1992 Nissan. A pair of shoes was also taken...
...Traditional Smithsonian-esque political memorabilia abounds, including 13-inch statues of each president, each accompanied by a small glass case of presidential doo-dads (including a spoon from Coolidge's inauguration, a pair of the Reagans' wine glasses and a Clinton golf ball). The first ladies are represented as well; inaugural ball gowns line one wall. One seven-year-old girl, pulling her mother by the hand, passed judgment on each dress: "I'd wear that one, not that one, that one, that one...." Personally, I gave Pat Nixon's gown the highest marks: A clean, simple cream-colored satin...