Word: pressing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...weeks ago, Vice President Al Gore was thrown for a loop on "Meet the Press." Host Tim Russert asked him whether he would postpone the execution of pregnant death row inmates until after they had given birth, and Gore, after some hemming and hawing, finally came up with an answer: "The principle of a woman's right to choose governs in that case." Gore didn't want to alienate his pro-choice constituency, so he just went on autopilot...
...press, which might be tempted to play up the health issues because of a a desperately slow news cycle, remains curiously uninspired by Cheney's health problems. Unlike Bill Bradley's nearly imperceptible heart murmur, which was front-page news for days, Cheney's series of heart attacks may have provided the candidate with a badge of survival, an armor against frivolous speculation. If this guy weathered three heart attacks, the press corps may be musing, he's got to be tough. It's possible, of course, that the official announcement of the Bush-Cheney ticket will open the floodgates...
...also up in arms over a raid by the city's licensing and inspection office of a building where protesters were manufacturing signage. Officials are also still feeling the aftershocks of the videotaped beating by police of carjacking suspect Thomas Jones on July 12, an incident that brought unwelcome press attention...
...more lives are saved by guns then lost to guns.... If you take away accessibility to guns for the common people, the common people will be victims many more times over than we are now. We see this as a civil rights issue, especially for women." -Maria Heil, national press coordinator, Second Amendment Sisters...
...wait two weeks at least, let the Cheney introduction play out in the press and watch Philadelphia on cable TV. See who salutes, and measure the bounce that the Bush-Cheney ticket - a dreamy promise of a return to the Bush family's salad days - gets in the polls. Average is 6-10 percent, anything more or less will throw Gore into a paroxysm of calculation...