Word: using
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Candidate Christ, he said, merely by his presence could demolish these temporal politicians who use his name like it was a commercial product...
...candidate said McCain has publicly recalled how he used the name to stay alive in prison. Candidate Christ then said it would be far better if he wouldn't use the name any more at rallies, as if quoting some cheap temporal philosopher...
Mind you, they're not hard math word problems. One of the keys to the success of these shows is the decision to use sub-Jeopardy! questions. "People feel 'I'm better than them,' while in the '50s you may have felt more comfortable saying you had never seen such a smart guy in your neighborhood as you saw on a quiz show," says NBC West Coast president Scott Sassa. Herb Stempel, the one who blew the whistle on the old Twenty-One, has a less upbeat take. "They want the people in the audience to pat themselves...
...been doing publicity spots ever since, hoping to make a career out of his moment. "The money itself hasn't changed my life," he says. "But being known is a big change. If people asked my friends if they knew me, they would deny it; now they use it to pick up girls...
...writers of the show can't use their position to do that. In fact, they aren't supposed to tell anyone what their job is. The real fallout from the Twenty-One scandal wasn't America's lost innocence, it was the reappropriation of resources from the security of our defense to the security of our game shows. A TIME/CNN poll shows that only 32% of Americans think game shows are always run honestly, while 76% say it doesn't matter. Nevertheless, Greed had to change its name to Greed: the Series to skirt a rule that says shows...