Word: smarter
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...America (or the electoral college as it may be) put an end to the statistical dead heats and elected either a stiff-necked Tennesseean or a record-dodging Texan to be the next leader of the free world. However, now is not the time to gloat about how the smarter man won out in the end. Nor is it the time to plan your emigration to Canada in the case that he didn't--at least, not quite yet. As counter-intuitive as it may seem, now is the time to be thinking about the next presidential election...
Gore is famous for his Halloween parties, has always appeared in costume. And thus it has been in this race--a cannibal in one debate, a Quaker in the next--and so voters say they don't quite know what to believe about him. He says he wants small, smarter government, but he talks about programs and legislation as lovingly as he does his grandson...
...risk into perspective by doing risk analysis, risk-risk tradeoffs and other kinds of analytic review so that we can understand these risks better and make smarter decisions as a society on how to protect ourselves with limited resources," Ropeik said...
...Stupidity, a versatile item, may express itself in a thousand ways. Bush seems conventionally ignorant and incurious. Perhaps the impression is unfair. Maybe Bush is smarter than he looks. Perhaps he is afflicted by a genetic goofiness that leaves an erroneous impression; at least he has not yet thrown up in the lap of any heads of state. But when Bush talks passionately about education, I wish I could shake the suspicion that the last book he read was "Goodnight Moon" when the twins were three...
...Gore is famous for his Halloween parties, has always appeared in costume. And so it has been in this race - a cannibal in one debate, a Quaker in the next - and so voters say they don't quite know what to believe about him. He says he wants small, smarter government, but he talks about programs and legislation as lovingly as he does about his grandson...