Word: particularly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...more important to investors than which party is in power. Yet every four years, after the Dems and the G.O.P. stake out the policy battleground at their national conventions, wags start in on how the market would fare under each candidate. Fun sport. But the Clinton years in particular stand much received wisdom on its head...
...Interestingly, the film was done entirely Ken Burns-style, panning over still photos, and you might wonder if it's the best idea for this particular campaign to show its candidate in a form where he remains 100 percent motionless. Still, for all the corny touches - particularly the little faux-handwritten family-scrapbook captions - visually, the device brought a human dimension to the man that DNC-produced film footage never could have. Simply put, it told you somebody cared enough about the man to take a picture of him without being paid...
...time of self-protective thinking. Candidates play defensive baseball to avoid errors, which is the surest way to make them. It is regarded as unsophisticated to discuss the fundamental nature of the country--either demonstrated or wished for--so stump speeches consist of exquisitely balanced references to particular problems. Centrist politics leads to guarded expression...
...Multiply that experience a couple thousand times, and you've got a fairly accurate picture of music on the Internet. A lot of musical acts are concerned about how they'll make money in the Age of the Download. But there's another question that merits attention--one of particular importance to consumers. With hundreds of thousands of songs floating around the Net, how does the ordinary fan sort out all the junk in order to get to the good stuff...
...many Jews take in Lieberman's selection is expansive and genuine. But the media's single-minded focus on the senator's Judaism is unusual, to say the least. The possible addition of another Jew to the upper echelons of government hardly seems like news. The Clinton administration in particular has promoted significant numbers of Jews to positions almost as high as the vice presidency: Many of his top Cabinet deputies, like Defense Secretary William S. Cohen and former Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin '61, come from Jewish backgrounds. Both of Clinton's appointees to the Supreme Court, Ruth Bader...