Word: stated
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...possibly can," Gore told his staff. "These small steps are nice, but that's what we've been doing for the past 6 1/2 years." Aides laid 13 policy options before him in a commuter terminal at Boston's Logan International Airport--everything from sweeping, state-run health care to the most modest increments. Gore checked off five options. Then it suddenly occurred to him what he wanted to do: cover children and their families. "Children are the most important thing here," he said. "That's what people want...
...didn't sigh or groan while Bradley spoke. And he didn't even distort Bradley's positions. He merely pointed out that Bradley's proposed monthly health-care subsidy, the one that's supposed to replace Medicaid, wouldn't be enough to buy coverage for poor people in either state. So when Bradley gave him that dead-fish look, the former Senator just came off as peevish, like a college professor who hates it when a grad student challenges his lecture...
...pursuit of a simple strategy, says a U.S. diplomat: "Get the two sides to talk to each other as much as possible." Barak so far hasn't become prickly over U.S. prodding, and Clinton finds that when he is in the room, Shara quibbles less than when Secretary of State Madeleine Albright mediates...
...when their calculators spit out the cost: $17 billion over 10 years. Then there's the billions Syria will demand for its sickly economy--a key motive behind Syrian President Hafez Assad's willingness to talk peace. "A deal this big is going to carry a price tag," admits State Department spokesman James Rubin...
...Faced with an increasingly conservative trend in state legislatures, many of which want a straitjacket approach to juvenile justice, Judge Moore was trying to find a reasonable answer to a very complicated question," says TIME senior reporter Alain Sanders. Abraham's case attracted international attention after Amnesty International showcased the boy, who could have faced a life sentence, in an exposé on the cruelties of the American criminal justice system. "People are torn on the topic of juvenile crime and punishment," says Sanders. "On the one hand, murder is murder, and you can't just let kids run around...