Word: bags
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...where else was a candidate to go with her tote bag full of women's issues if not to the Democratic Party? The Republican Party has "family values," meaning opposition to abortion and gay rights. The Democratic Party has "family issues," meaning things like health care, education and family leave. It probably helps that Clinton and Gore represent the first generation of presidential candidates to have shared their law school classes with women or their homes with actual feminists. This puts them in a different geological era from Bush, who, when questioned about appointing women to office, mentioned the woman...
...last weekend's nip-and-tuck contest against top-ranked Princeton (7-1, 5-0 Ivy), Penn (5-3, 3-2 Ivy) reached into their bag of tricks and pulled out the old "Lonesome End" play...
...obscene how much our team eats--how much I eat," Roiter remarks good-naturedly. She is 5'2", barely 100 pounds. Grinning, Roiter then reminisces about the time she and teammate Kelly Granat devoured an entire bag of Reese's on the way to a tournament...
...actors, and for the record, the acting was pretty good. Henry Wiley did a good job as the title character, a homeless teenager. He managed to be alienated and troubled without being sullen. Older actors James Morgan and Connie Dawson gave especially lively readings as a restauranteur and a bag lady, respectively. Most of the other parts didn't get much stage time, but everyone was consistent and fairly appealing. I wouldn't mind watching them again...
...Neolithic climber was also armed with a tiny flint dagger with a wooden handle; a net of grass, which possibly served as a carrying bag; and a pencil- size stone-and-linden tool that was probably used to sharpen arrowheads and blades. Two birchbark canisters may have been used to carry the embers from a fire, Egg speculates. The Iceman apparently toted much of his gear in a primitive rucksack with a U-shaped wooden frame...