Word: pro
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Invoking Monday's deadly shooting at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., Gore accused Bush of pandering to the pro-gun lobby. "What does it take?" Gore asked to applause...
...time they graduate, most Harvard students have become strangely desensitized to the outstanding accomplishments of their classmates. Three Nobel laureates? Heard it before. Three future presidents? That's nothing new. But three pro-football players? Now there's something to talk about...
...historical loop forms: steroids beget pro wrestlers--Hulk Hogan, for one, has admitted taking steroids--who inspire boys to be just like them. Steroids have changed even boys' toys. Feminists have long derided Barbie for her tiny waist and big bosom. The authors of The Adonis Complex see a similar problem for boys in the growth of G.I. Joe. The grunt of 1982 looks scrawny compared with G.I. Joe Extreme, introduced in the mid-'90s. The latter would have a 55-in. chest and 27-in. biceps if he were real, which simply can't be replicated in nature. Pope...
Vowing to run differently, Nader says he'll hold "time raisers" instead of fund raisers, where citizens offer effort, not cash. Can an itinerant senior citizen create a movement? The answer lies with trade. Bush and Gore have similar pro-trade views; the public is wary of a one-world economy. For now, the big boys aren't sweating Nader. But they may want to buckle...
...dance, Weiss's parents were unnerved by the prospect of her not going to college. "They were very, very proud, but they certainly were not pushing me! I mean, my mom went to Yale and my dad went to Cornell. I think they always knew [my desire to go pro] was looming, and then it became very clear that this was what I was going to do, for at least a couple of years...