Word: detectable
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...part because they share an interest in campaign-finance reform but mainly because he admires Feingold's nerve and honesty. At the same time he has antagonized Republican Senator Mitch McConnell, mainly because he thinks he's a creep. Indeed, except on one occasion, I have been unable to detect in McCain any of the usual Republican prejudices. That exception was when I told him I was moving to Berkeley, Calif. At the thought he wrinkled up his nose as if he'd just swallowed sour milk and said, "How could anyone live there?" I suppose everyone has his breaking...
...Last week the fashion faithful of New York were out in full force. One could detect a new spring in the step of many a clotheshorse as women rushed through the slush in their Prada heels for front seats at the fall 2000 shows. The Oscar de la Renta show, held in the main tent in Bryant Park, took center stage. De la Renta revealed a cutting edge collection of sable-trimmed vests and miniskirts in suede or leather, ball dresses and snakeskin shirts...
...Those who knew him detect an increased emphasis on religion since his days as a student and a foreign service officer, but Keyes shrugs that off. "The religious element has become more prominent in my life," he says. "But I don't think it's become more important in my politics, no. Then and now, I believe that the defining principles of my life are stated in the Declaration of Independence. Nothing has changed about that...
...last witness was leaving our Washington committee room, far to the south young blacks were risking protests over their exclusion from "white only" lunch counters, and across town a young Massachusetts Senator was preparing a race for President, promising to "get America moving again." It is hard to detect such stirrings today. But history's most tumultuous shifts always come as a surprise. And America has always been about something more than money. If that has changed, then the country has not just changed, it has become a different country...
...generally rich; more people have homes of their own. We are generally healthy, thanks largely to remarkable advances in medicine. People who died of certain diseases even 30 years ago are routinely saved today. A colonoscopy will detect and lead to the removal of a cancer that shows no external symptoms. Lifesaving operations on hearts and brains occur every day. Not only has medicine advanced; it has allowed people to act on their more selfless impulses. In September a middle-school teacher in Fayetteville, N.C., learned that one of her students suffered from kidney disease and needed a transplant...