Word: flaws
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...what they got. The New York Post trumpets "LIAR LIAR" on its front page - and the post-debate spin cycle becomes about Gore's perceived chronic character flaw. And so it has gone every week since the debates. The image is enshrined...
...male to Prozac-ed debater - like an over-the-hill teen pop star searching for a comeback image - the Bush team decided on its plan. It would take all of Gore's perceived weaknesses and find a way to define them as all being part of the same character flaw. And the kicker would be that it was the same defect that the public had detected in Clinton...
...second flaw is that neither plan does enough to combat the use of tax loopholes by wealthy individuals and corporations to escape their tax burden. A report recently released by CTJ and the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy noted that top U.S. corporations have used loopholes to steadily reduce their tax obligations over the last decade. For example, Texaco earned $3.4 billion in profits from 1996 to 1998, but instead of paying taxes it received money from the federal government to the tune of $304 million. If the loopholes were closed, this money could be returned to individuals...
...turn over [BUSINESS, Oct. 2]. I was being passed by scores of SUVs at speeds of up to 80 m.p.h., some even faster. Perhaps the question we should be asking is, "Are These Drivers Safe?" Certainly if the tread on a tire separates or there is a design flaw in an automobile, the manufacturers bear some responsibility if people are injured or killed. I think drivers also bear some responsibility if the manner in which they drive endangers themselves or others. suvs are not sports cars and should be driven with special care. That extra horsepower is not there...
...part, the author confirmed, but Tipper wasn't) and with his boast that he took "the initiative in creating the Internet" (although even Newt Gingrich says Gore did so in the Congress). Gore is assumed to be exaggerating even when he's not. We're hypersensitive to the flaw, having just finished seven years with his boss, who really knew how to ice the cake...