Word: ruling
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...book, that's lying. It's telling a journalist that, no, that incredibly lame answer the candidate gave in the debate about Social Security - to which you privately said to yourself, "Where the hell did that come from?" - was exactly what we wanted to say. Which leads me to Rule...
...down 30 points, don't say, "We're gonna win it." At least say something like, "It's going to be a struggle." The press appreciates candor and generally doesn't punish you for it. Look at what John McCain got away with. Speaking of McCain, here's Rule 3 for presidential candidates...
King would not rule out legal action...
...generally April 1 of the year following the year you turn 70 1/2. Right now, if you missed the deadline, you're out of luck. But there's legislation working its way through Congress that would give everyone a chance to start anew. If enacted, the fresh-start rule would go into effect...
Males have not, as a rule, joined Kingsolver's fan clubs, and this novel suggests a reason: they are seldom the central figures in the author's world. Although Deanna and Lusa never meet, they share subterranean female experiences. Both recognize that men are attracted to them, unknowingly, because of pheromones; both ovulate in synch with the full moon. On a steamy, "oversexed" Fourth of July evening, Lusa feels her widow's grief subsiding as her male in-laws play with fireworks: "We're only what we are: a woman cycling with the moon, and a tribe of men trying...