Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Until Forbes' recent shift on immigration, there was nothing about his message or campaign that suggested the politics of division. He avoids the hot-button social issues harped on by his rivals: he would not ban abortion, gun control or affirmative action. He is a sincere seeker of answers, a man genuinely concerned about social pathologies. He cites Kemp's policies of enterprise zones and tenant control of public housing as partial solutions to inner-city devastation...
Their friends expect that Katia will return to Simsbury after the traditional Russian Orthodox 40-day mourning period and resume her skating, probably as a solo performer--she could never find Sergei's equal. "The perfect pair," says commentator and two-time Olympic gold medalist Dick Button. "They had everything. He was the perfect husband; they had the perfect career, the perfect marriage...
...sounds like common sense to do it that way, but we've only been doing it since Brian Blais took over last semester," Smith said. "We can see what we've spent on everything with a click of a button. That was impossible before because we had no records...
...Leadership is more than a slogan, more than the synthetic politics of hot-button issues and feel-good rhetoric devised by focus groups. Tempered by experience, broadened through historical perspective, a leader is willing to take the long view and to risk short-term unpopularity in pursuit of long-term objectives. He is someone comfortable with himself, sure of his core values...In short, someone very much like you and someone very much unlike Bill Clinton...
...eyes closed, listening to the "voice" that has plagued him for more than two years. The voice is relentless, speaking once every 10 seconds or so. "Don't act stupid," it says in a demeaning tone. "Dirty rotten bastard." Each time the man hears the voice, he clicks a button. Scientists, meanwhile, are monitoring his brain activity. Using a special imaging technique called PET scanning, they take series of pictures every 10 minutes. Later, by matching the timing of the button clicks with the snapshots--744 in all--they get what is, in effect, a photo album of active hallucinations...