Word: though
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Driskell, who voted against the bill, said she hopes someone else can come up with a better solution--though she praised Letalien and Orr for taking their best shot...
...fact, it is the rare similarities that have created the crises in the Fishes' marriage. Though Jeff and Dolores adore their daughter Krekamey, the first few years after her birth were stressful as they struggled to care for her and pursue demanding careers as professors. Both felt the strain, but Dolores undertook the majority of parenting tasks and allowed her career to suffer the consequences. How did she deal with the frustrations? "I took it day by day," she says, acknowledging, "I find more personal rewards in household things than Jeff does...
...Though they seemed to be a match made in heaven, their wedding was a prelude to two years of hell. Irving's younger son cut the honeymoon short by running away from his mother's home and moving in with them; Irving's father died after a long illness; Irving was repeatedly hospitalized for mysterious blackouts. The couple lost one pregnancy to miscarriage; a second pregnancy ended in stillbirth the same week Phyllis' mother died of esophageal cancer; Phyllis was forced to commit her father to a mental hospital...
...buckles his seat belt, of course. Ralph Nader gets into the car at Washington's Reagan National Airport. It's 10:30 p.m. and it's a safe bet that his fellow passengers are heading home or at least out for a nightcap. At 66, though, Nader is going to the office. On the ride he talks about the IMF and other global economic bodies: "How can we sign on to something that subordinates democracy to corporate power...
...part, Nader's not worried about handing the election to Bush. He's down on Gore: "He's plastic man. He used to be the man you went to on civil justice and biotech. Now he's just corporate power." Even though he's in competition with Buchanan, Nader says the racist rap against his opponent is unfair. Indeed, the icon of liberalism vows to reach out to conservatives. A Lebanese-American from small-town Connecticut, he rails like a Puritan. Childhood, he says, is being "corporatized by video games, junk food, undermining parental authority...Bill Bennett stuff...