Word: summering
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Plaza holds special significance to Gore: he gave the eulogy at his father's funeral here and this summer used the space to announce his ground-breaking selection of Lieberman as a vice presidential candidate--the first Jewish candidate selected for a national ticket...
...statewide poll conducted last week by the Boston Herald and Boston's WCVB-TV showed the question leads by a 47 to 37 percentage point margin. However, opposition to the cut seems to be gaining momentum, as the approval rating for the cut has shrunk dramatically since the summer...
Opponents of the proposal argue it will drive up health care costs and put insurers and health care providers out of business. It would also replace a patient's bill of rights enacted by the legislature this summer, which many doctors claim is superior to the wording in the ballot question...
...summer following the show's first season, my family went on vacation and stopped at the Continental Divide. When my dad was posing my sister and me for a photo, I switched places to be on the western side of the divide because that was "closer to Los Angeles." In L.A., one could live all by oneself in a "security building" like Sabrina or in a beach house like Jill. Granted, as a grownup the closest I ever got was a one-bedroom across from Lake Michigan. But still I got the career-girl life I dreamed of. Sometimes...
...choice was not always so clear-cut. Gore, it was noted in the summer, had historically large pockets of support on Wall Street. He represented a happy continuation of the policies that had brought the economy and the markets astounding success over the past eight years. But when Gore went populist, and Bush started to look acceptably reliable, the naturally Republican instincts of Street types took over. Price controls for pharmaceuticals? Big Bad HMOs? Rats in the barn? As a New Democrat Gore could be counted on to be sensible about these things; as an angry populist...