Word: pressing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...surplus." Aides explained away the slips by saying he was tired. But it was only August, and Bush had been away from home for all of one day. The next morning, as his campaign jet idled on the runway in Des Moines, the Governor strolled back to the press corps and allowed that "I've got to do a better job." Eager for a close race, the media seized on the admission as a sign of disarray. With Gore on the rise, old questions about Bush--Is he smart enough? Is he willing to work hard enough?--were being asked...
Maybe the press was too hungry for Bush in Trouble stories. But there were some troubling signs. Chief among them: an internal feud over a G.O.P.-financed TV ad that took a Gore interview from 1994 and edited it to imply that the Vice President had refused to admit that Bill Clinton lied about Monica in 1998. Despite Bush's oft-stated aversion to personal attacks, this one had been in the works for a month, and many of his advisers urged him to run it. When it was shown to a focus group, Bush's advisers were jubilant...
Next week, when 159 heads of state convene in New York City for the U.N. Millennium Summit--the largest such gathering ever (and doubtless a traffic nightmare that the city will not forget soon)--Annan will press this idea further. In the past few years, he has been refining a policy that calls on the states of the world to step in wherever and whenever human lives are being consumed in conflagrations of hate, disease or poverty. He has not always succeeded. On his watch, in places like Rwanda and Bosnia, he has seen thousands die as they awaited help...
...delight, that the Ghanaian national soccer team is practicing nearby. So he strolls over to where a crowd has gathered, hoping to catch a few minutes of the scrimmage. It is not possible. The mob erupts when they see him, shouting and dancing. Annan's security guards quickly press him back into his car. They try to drive away, but the thick, gleeful crowd has the cars glued in place. The Ghanaians risk trampling one another in their eagerness to get close to Annan. "Hey, father!" they shout. "Father...
...also quite often denied knowledge of an embarrassing event or subtly hinted that it was the responsibility of subordinates. He did this in February, when Radio Liberty journalist Andrei Babitsky was handed over by security services to spurious Chechen guerrillas. In June, when Gusinsky was arrested, Putin told a press conference in Germany that he had been unable to find out why Gusinsky was in prison: he had not been able to phone the prosecutor general. Today Chechnya, once Putin's abiding policy passion, is rarely mentioned now that the military effort there is firmly bogged down...