Word: weeks
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Bush who spoke these words was not the Texas Governor but his father, the President, fighting his losing re-election battle against Bill Clinton in the fall of 1992. What's striking is that George W. Bush all but repeated the lines in last week's presidential debate in Boston. After spending a year trying to convince people that he's a different kind of Republican, Bush is hammering Al Gore with the same old-fashioned theme that didn't work for his dad. "There is a huge difference in this campaign," he said Tuesday night. "It's the difference...
...while this race looked like a clean choice, more government or lower taxes, the Tin Man or the Scarecrow, the teacher's pet or the class clown. But with each freshly deadlocked poll, it is looking less like a clear choice than a hard one. And last week it became a real one as well, when voters finally got to watch Al Gore and George W. Bush, naked on the same stage, and come to grips with what it would mean to choose between them...
...late to fall in love; the race from here out is a fight for the last 10%, the hardheaded, ticket-splitting late-deciding swing voters who may be the least likely to make an emotional decision but seem to have trouble making a pragmatic one either. Last week, when the two men met at last, Hot Lips Gore was not inviting the voters out on a date; he called it a "job interview" and set out to show why he was the more qualified to lead, even if that meant behaving like a bully. The good news for Gore...
With each week that passes, it becomes clearer that neither George W. Bush nor Al Gore is a satisfactory candidate for President of the United States...
...Remarkably, this unsanctioned invasion took place in plain view on one of the most traveled stretches of the busiest highway in Rond?nia. Moreover, the dozen or so clearings were cut in less than a week, a coordinated assault that bespeaks organization and planning. Antonio Alves, one of the settlers, says he came here because he was told the land did not belong to anyone. In fact, it belongs to a nonprofit organization that has not been able to produce clear title to the land; ibama officials guess that the settlers were tipped to this opportunity by a local politician...