Word: powers
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Instead, the first space stations, both U.S. and Russian, were simply modified third stages of existing rockets. Then came the Mir in 1986, with multiple modules. It was habitable but lacked the power for much in the way of experimentation. Ultimately it would be of greater interest to film directors, game-show producers and wealthy would-be space tourists than to scientists. It is currently abandoned...
Gays and religious minorities, for example, will particularly suffer under a Bush Administration, whose use of executive order and veto power will cripple the cause for equal rights and crumble the wall of separation between church and state. The party that mustered Congressional majorities for posting the Ten Commandments and holding mandatory prayer in schools but failed to pass sensible gun regulation after Columbine or hate-crimes laws after Matthew Shepard's murder is itching to appoint the next few Supreme Court justices...
...Gore's back is none other than Ralph Nader. The resonance of Nader's rhetoric and the role his candidacy will play in taking down Al Gore's is Exhibit A in the long list of evidence against the functioning of our democracy. Nader assails the concentration of corporate power, which voters correctly identify with. However, his one-issue view lumps Gore and Bush together, obscuring their political differences. The public's inability to dissociate these messages contributes to the perception that there is no difference between Gore and Bush, when in fact nothing could be further from the truth...
...They're pretty neat," Adams says. "They're golden and they have the same purchasing power as a dollar bill...
...soundest and most reliable engine in the 2000 campaign belongs to Ralph Nader, who, having no prospect of winning, can run on his ideals. We have always known that the proximity of power may make a person stupid, or at any rate uncivilized - hungry for it in that drooling way that ruins judgment. Nader burns nothing more dangerous than the fumes of his own virtue...