Word: tellingly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...course, that's like trying to tell a car-losing "Price is Right Contestant" that he should be glad that he won that year's supply of Palmolive...
Everywhere you turn the media tells us that the times have never been so good for young people. The younger generation has always thought they were smarter than their parents, but the phenomenal success of dot-coms headed by 27-year-olds who eschewed college has actually proved us right. Books like Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and Luxury Fever tell us that younger, educated classes are getting richer quicker than any before. Two years of I-banking and you're making serious six figures including bonuses. And if you don't want to "beat the Street...
...lieu of creative ideas, Strother noted, the campaigns have often resorted to airing "pollster ads," which consist mostly of a series of key text phrases flashed across the screen that do not actually tell about the candidate's stance on the issue; rather, they mirror the phrases of policy that voters recognize in the hopes of making them think that they can "identify with" the candidate...
...question resoundingly ("It's a fairness issue. It's an issue of principle, not politics") and delivered suitably grave response to the death penalty question that Gore, surprisingly, left unchallenged. He even had a line for campaign finance reform and citizen disillusionment: "We need somebody in office who will tell the truth. It's the best way to get people back into the system...
...replies on how to reassure people about the political system - "We need to shoot straight with young and old alike? and (most ironically) "It needs somebody in office who'll tell the truth" drew flashing "False Statements" from the computer. As did his comments on capital punishment ("It saves lives") and his Texas record ("I brought folks together...