Word: talks
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...than anything else, aides say, Eskew has fostered Gore's instinct to go for the jugular. So quick is Gore to seize an opening that when Bradley groused last week that Iowa rewards "entrenched power," the Vice President was almost instantly on the phone to Eskew: "I want to talk about this today." From the stage of a school gym, Gore, who in his 1988 presidential race skipped Iowa entirely, extolled the virtues of the state's unusual process of picking a nominee. "Fighting for people is what the Iowa caucuses are all about," he thundered...
...Gore as well. Whatever fate his plan meets in Congress, where the patient's bill of rights languishes in conference, Clinton's proposal guarantees that health care will be part of the public conversation through the spring, and that is a discussion in which Democrats know how to talk the talk...
...sign that the talk is already well under way, the Health Insurance Association of America, which sponsored the "Harry and Louise" ads that helped derail the Clinton plan for universal coverage in 1994, rolled out a new series of ads last week. But now the fictional couple is in favor of an insurance-industry initiative that would expand coverage of the uninsured through broadened federal programs and changes in the tax code. "It was important to get this advertisement out there at this formative stage of the election year," says HIAA president Chip Kahn, a former legislative aide to Newt...
...higher degree than we'd thought," says TIME Miami Bureau chief Tim Padgett. "It was a sad moment for many people involved, because far from being the occasion that some had hoped would help facilitate a resolution, it was extremely tense and the two families didn't even talk." With no family reconciliation expected to resolve the dispute, the focus returned to Capitol Hill, where both the grandmothers and their Florida relatives arrived Thursday to lobby legislators over plans to make Elian a U.S. citizen. But they may find an election-year Congress a little short on Solomonic wisdom...
...Even people evaluated with "very much above average" risk, the highest possible risk designation, will be told that this "doesn't mean you'll definitely get cancer...If you have any concerns, talk to a doctor...