Word: pro
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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KENTUCKY Gore's anticigarette and pro-environment stances hurt him in this tobacco and coal state. It led one Democratic Congressman to refuse to come to the convention in Los Angeles...
...brand of populism he has sounded on the trail for weeks. He aimed his message right at working families who "are trying to make house payments and car payments, working overtime to save for college," he said. Even the New Democrats were urged to preach the new doctrine: "Being pro-growth and being aggressive at protecting consumers," running mate Joe Lieberman told TIME, "I think they go together." At Team Gore's convention-planning meeting on Wednesday morning, campaign chairman Bill Daley offered the ultimate reward: 100 floor passes to anyone who could get former Treasury Secretary and gazillionaire Robert...
...drama about a duo (Adrian Pasdar and Rae Dawn Chong) who investigate suspected miracles--largely involving visitations from the dead--it's X-Files with a halo. But where The X-Files teased us for years about its alien conspiracies, the feel-good Ways is unabashedly pro-miracle. Chong is introduced as a Scully-like skeptic; by the second episode, she receives a message from her late husband. Sagansky distinguishes Ways from "paranormal" shows like The X-Files--but even that series featured the cathartic reunion of Mulder and his sister's spirit...
...Decrease in hours that lawyers at the nation's top-grossing firms spent on pro bono cases, from...
...from the FCC, which could set the regulatory climate for at least the next year (Time Warner, of course, is parent of this site). Or even the election, as Monday's damage-control dance continues with Gore sounding the battle cry and Lieberman whispering that the ticket will be pro-business again by October, not to worry. The way this matchup is shaping up - call it Carter-Reagan with a prosperity twist - we could get market ping-pong all fall. This market, it seems, will always find something to fret about...