Word: specialized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Well, McCain replied, as he has all along, he speaks his mind and tells the truth: "It is very clear to all," he said Thursday night, "the lobbyists and special-influence people who run Washington know that if John McCain is President, things are going to be a lot different." But there is more to the charges than that. The whispering campaign aims to turn his story against him: he's not really like the rest of us, give him a medal but don't make him President. "I attribute it all to the abuse," says a former Senator after...
...Keating scandal was that in politics, appearances matter. Even if he hadn't done anything wrong, guilt by association was enough to ruin even his image. But it's hard to see that as the main lesson, given how careless he still is about appearances. He denounces big-spending special interests and yet accepts flights on corporate jets; he puts the speaker of the Arizona house of representatives on his campaign payroll despite a flurry of ethics charges around him; he neglects to recuse himself from debates about measures that would affect his family beer business...
...Many thousands of other protesters were already converging there, some engaged in peaceful sit-ins that blocked traffic. Things got serious when scattered groups of self-described Black Block anarchists, wearing all-black outfits with handkerchiefs or hoods covering their faces, started to smash windows and trash businesses, giving special attention to companies such as the Gap and Nike that have been accused of using low-wage or child labor to produce some of their merchandise. Peaceful protesters, horror-struck, shouted, "Shame! Shame!" at the rioters. Once word got out that the streets were haywire, however, a wave of garden...
...other? A girl reporter straight out of boarding school who worried about the possibility of getting soiled by wrestler sweat. Well have full coverage for you in an upcoming issue....And for those of you not titillated by pop culture phenomena, well have you enraptured too: look for a special interview with Jane Campion, director of The Piano and Holy Smoke, in January....Have you ever tried explaining instant replay to somebody who has never heard of it before? My cousin and I tried it the other day when our Indian aunt exclaimed during a football game, What? Whats going...
However, the university has undertaken a major effort to beef up campus security. Overtime pay for police, shriek alarms and special seminars on safety have cost over $100,000, said Barbara Pitoniak, a university spokesperson...