Word: subjecting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...pleasant to have someone concerned about you and your health. I was brought up to think about others, not about myself, and if the conversation should dwell on me, to change the subject quickly. But now, in the privacy of an examining room, I was accorded the great privilege of talking about me, my feelings and aches and what's happening here and here and down here, and the doctor was not so bored to hear about it. He found me interesting and looked into my eyes and my ears and my nose. He thumped my chest...
...USAT's Judy Keen is with Bush as bouncee "unloaded on the Clinton administration's defense policies Monday, accusing the president and Vice President Al Gore of allowing the nation's military to decay." Change that subject, W. WSJ's Greg Jaffe is on it, though, with piece on Clinton unloading (money) back: "amid criticism from Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush that the military is short on soldiers and equipment, [Clinton] is set to give the Defense Department an unexpected boost to its budget for fiscal 2002." Bill Tries to Help, Gives Bush Argument Credibility...
According to Christopher, Gore refused to poll the question. He said, "That's not part of me...I exclude that," Christopher told the New York Times. But other Gore advisers are cagier on the subject. "We do a lot of research about a lot of different people," says one, "but it wasn't like, Will they vote for a Jew?" It's a minor issue, because even if the campaign did poll the question, it wouldn't necessarily trust people to respond honestly. The latest TIME/CNN poll asked voters if Lieberman's Judaism will "make people in your area" more...
...initiative in creating the Internet," an unfortunate way of saying he sponsored the bill that bankrolled the transformation of a Defense Department computer network into the Internet we know today. Nor did he claim to have discovered the Love Canal toxic-waste crisis; he was misquoted on the subject, but the newspaper corrections didn't get the same play as the original charge. That's not to say Gore doesn't exaggerate; he does. But plenty of other people in his line of work do too. "It is not an unknown phenomenon," he notes dryly, "for politicians to tell...
...drawn to complexity--abstract systems, chaos theory, the computer-processing technique of distributed intelligence--and when he encounters someone who strikes him as an intellectual, Gore likes to put his brain on display and unleash his knowledge, drawing little diagrams to illustrate his points, even when the subject...