Word: expendability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...piscine predators. According to researchers at Lund University in Sweden, when pike are placed in carp-filled ponds, the hunted fish begin to bulk up on food in the water until, after 12 weeks, they are simply too big for the pike to swallow. But the bigger carp expend more energy swimming. Once the pike threat is gone, the carp should revert back to their slimmer shape. Call them the Arnold Schwarzeneggers of the deep -- at least for a while...
Before he launched his famous first 100 days, Franklin Roosevelt proclaimed that "the country demands bold, persistent experimentation." He understood that the best way to protect the mandate he had won was to expend his political capital, to treat his popularity as a tool for governing rather than as an asset to be hoarded until the next election. He was re-elected three ; times. George Bush is living proof that the opposite approach leads to failure...
...convinced that it was the best school in the country, and I now realize that I waste an opportunity every time I shrink from its challenges. It sounds so elementary and trite, but I often forget that I owe the world nothing more than my effort. If I expend myself and do not "measure up," then perhaps I am misdirecting my energy. Perhaps I need to look somewhere else...
...energy Democrats usually expend fighting with one another went into a big-budget Hollywood production, complete with filmed biographies by Harry Thomason and Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, the creators of TV's Designing Women and Evening Shade. One of the highlights was a 1963 film clip showing John Kennedy shaking hands in the Rose Garden with the 16-year-old Clinton, a priceless piece of celluloid that Clinton aide Frank Greer dug out of the Kennedy Library...
...accomplish this, Clinton had to rely on regressive sales taxes rather than expend further energy trying to work an income tax through the constitutional baffles. He had to cut corners and improvise in ways that less hamstrung governments avoid. "Clinton is criticized for using corporate jets to get around the state, but every politician does that here," says Diane Blair. "Otherwise you don't go anywhere. I have seen Hillary fly through black storms to get to a high school graduation where they are waiting for her. She would never make it if some firm in the town...