Word: climbing
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While Kerry and Clark are making a visible effort to climb down off their pedestals, Edwards--his professional life spent before juries as a trial lawyer--could establish rapport with a saltshaker. Where Dean's populism can sound hostile, Edwards' is sugarcoated, the mill-town boy who knows what your life is really like because he married his wife with an $11 ring. Speaking to TIME between events, Edwards recalled, "My father always said, 'I can tell if someone is talking down to me in 30 seconds.' Voters can tell that, they can sense it. The only...
...A.P.U. introduced an honors program and a science research institute, created academic scholarships to lure better students from both religious and secular high schools, quadrupled its graduate programs and nearly doubled undergraduate enrollment. Even as the school grew in size, the mean SAT score of freshmen began a steady climb, rising 72 points in the past five years, to 1,102--82 points above the national average and a sign that more serious scholars are filling the seats at chapel...
...radio, he has hammered home the virtues of his tuition bill, and aides are planning a blitz of new initiatives on health, crime and transportation. If Blair emerges relatively unscathed from the David Kelly report and ekes out even a narrow victory on tuition fees, he could climb back. "People don't want wishy-washy Prime Ministers," says Nick Sparrow, managing director of ICM. "In six months, if they think Blair stuck to what he believes in, a narrow victory could do him good...
...truth when they make those claims, but only some of it. People don't hold parades for a manufacturing spin-off, and they don't muffle their drums and lower their flags when an educational program dies. They do that for astronauts--men and women in puffy suits who climb on top of 30 stories of exploding stuff and ride it to places none of the rest of us will ever get to see. That's the most compelling reason we spend the money we spend. Bush nodded in that direction in his speech last week, but it was only...
...experience is that it's a disaster for the governing party to be seen as divided," says one Blair aide. Recrimination and bad press would hand the Conservatives a chance for revival before a general election expected next year. But even the narrowest victory could let Blair climb back, says Nick Sparrow, managing director of ICM Research. "People don't want wishy-washy Prime Ministers. In six months, if they think Blair stuck to what he believes in, a narrow victory could do him good." A senior Blair aide agrees, but harbors at least a tiny doubt about this week...