Word: though
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Though she will not officially take office until August 7, Newman said she is thrilled with her new position...
Meanwhile, though, the political community seems remarkably unruffled by Cheney's checkered bill of health. Assuming that the Bush camp has already taken various doctors' assessments and volumes of medical information into account, they must have concluded (incorrectly or not) that Cheney's past heart problems will not be an issue in this election. And they may well be right: It remains unclear whether the Gore ticket will launch an attack on Cheney's physical qualifications for the veep slot (a route that might be considered too tasteless even for American politics...
...that Iraq has not been certified as compliant with its undertakings on weapons of mass destruction. Of course, there have been no U.N. inspectors in Iraq since they were withdrawn before the air strikes in late 1998. But without inspectors, Iraq's compliance can't be certified, even though former Marine captain Scott Ritter, who as a U.N. arms inspector was at the center of the 1997 showdown in Baghdad, insists that Iraq currently has no capacity to threaten anyone with weapons of mass destruction. In other words, sanctions have long since served their original purpose of blunting Saddam...
...Both Gore and Bush invite dynastic metaphors: Gore represents continuation of the House of Clinton. In choosing Cheney, W. implies the restoration of the House of the Georges, the status quo ante, a return to the land as it was before the time of Gennifer Flowers and Monica Lewinsky, though without the recession that ousted Bush the Father. Bush's choice of Cheney thus gives to the dynastic implication a light flavoring of revenge, of vindication...
Acronym alert: The Japanese hosts wanted to make this an Internet summit (even though Prime Minister Mori only learned to use a mouse a few months ago), so the summiteers issued an Okinawa Charter on Global Information Society and promised to do more to wire the developing world. Beforehand, U.S. officials stopped talking about bridging the "digital divide" that threatens to separate rich countries from poor, but instead started pushing the idea of creating more "digital opportunity" for developing countries. Reason: At Okinawa, they announced they were forming a new Digital Opportunity Task Force, or DOT Force...