Word: persons
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...patently unfair for a person to wait 15 to 20 years to become a citizen, all the while seeing their kids in school, paying taxes, and not having a chance to participate," he said...
...people left voting booths, interviewers for the service asked them to fill out a confidential questionnaire. Voters were chosen at a set interval--such as every fifth person--so that each voter had an equal chance of being picked...
...virus can be passed from one person to another a number of ways--primarily through direct contact. Scientists have recently isolated Ebola viruses from the sweat, blood, saliva and lung tissue of those sorry individuals autopsied during the 1995 Ebola outbreak in Zaire. That epidemic was brought under control through a strategy that sought to limit the skin-to-skin contacts between infected individuals and their healthy, living caretakers...
...Most Intimidating Election-Night Set: ABC. Peters Jennings is presiding from the starship deck of what looks like a rejected set for "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," accessorized with a giant panel of honeycomb, and the ubiquitous New York City streetscape does nothing to soften things. Worse, every person on the team - Jennings, Sam Donaldson, Cokie Roberts - is forced to stand coolly and uncomfortably, like the keyboard players in an early-'80s New Wave band. Who's the network news sadist who decided anchors suddenly can only seem authoritative if they stand for hours on end? This could...
...Thus, likewise, CNN telegraphed heavily the poll-predicted fate of a certain high-profile Senate candidate who, of of some quaint, outmoded respect for the thousands of people who have yet to vote for or against this person, I will not name. "This is going to be a very tense time," said a CNN reporter at the Mr./Ms. Senate Candidate HQ. The report was followed by a certain high-profile partisan pundit, married to another certain high-profile partisan pundit, giving a litany of excuses why Mr./Ms. Contender might have done better. Although...