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...more professional level. The freewheeling press salons that used to take place unchaperoned by any campaign aides are now more structured. Strategist Mike Murphy sits at McCain's right hand, playing hall monitor by clarifying positions and editing possible missteps the candidate might make. Murphy is a bottomless pit of tall tales and campaign spin who can spell the candidate from having to provide round-the-clock sound bites and chatter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCain's Moment | 2/14/2000 | See Source »

According to Massachusetts Representative Michael E. Capuano (D-Somerville), the area's housing shortage is a "bottomless pit" that has been exacerbated by the loss of federal and state subsidies over recent years...

Author: By Nathaniel L. Schwartz and Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Housing Plan Means Windfall for Local Cities | 11/12/1999 | See Source »

...things exist--and we are stripping and poisoning it, depriving it of its ability to sustain life. Jacques-Yves Cousteau once predicted that unless we--not the editorial or royal we but the universal we--changed our ways and stopped treating the oceans as an infinite resource and a bottomless dump, there would someday come a moment of no recovery. Overwhelmed at last, the resilient seas would no longer be able to cleanse or restock themselves. From that moment on, the oceans--and with them nearly all life on earth--would embark upon a slow, irreversible descent into the darkness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Will Be the Catch of the Day? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...cycle. The spectacle is an art exhibition--"The Turn of the Century," a carousel adorned with 20th century pop and historical images--but you could be excused for mistaking it for a typical day's television programming. With more than a dozen biography programs feeding the audience's seemingly bottomless lust for lives, cable has likewise become a vast merry-go-round where the life stories of Roosevelts and Roseannes pop up constantly and with equal prominence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Bio Sphere | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

...will pick you up in an air-conditioned bus and take you there and bring you back--if you promise to vote for Steve Forbes in the poll," he exhorted, as his listeners munched 148 cookies and downed eight gallons of tea and lemonade, all on Forbes' bottomless tab. The candidate, who had just given his nice speech about the evils of Washington, the tax code and the Federal Reserve, sat close by with his trademark political look, which is somewhere between bewilderment and a grin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: Vote for Forbes And Get a Gold Pin | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

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