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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Bush in the wake of the Super Tuesday primaries - twice-a-week debates, joint town meetings, forswearing party soft money - sounded high-minded, but it was really wishful thinking. Without some sort of seismic shift in the ground rules, Gore faces a daunting task: keeping the Democratic National Committee flush enough to compete with the expected barrage of GOP TV ads all spring and summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democrats Scramble to Fill Campaign War Chest | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

Work positions are available in both back country and front country, depending on how much you like flush toilets...

Author: By Benjamin D. Grizzle, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Don't Fret, Get a Job | 3/3/2000 | See Source »

McCain knew Bush would be flush early on because of his daddy's name, so his bargain-basement strategy was to focus on New Hampshire and South Carolina. "If I do this," McCain told Graham, "I'm gonna need a guy like you who can help me in South Carolina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Native Son's Secret Strategy | 2/14/2000 | See Source »

Between people and themselves, separations have always existed. Some of that today is due to the "Is this all there is"-ness of flush modern life; some, to the number of work hours--a mere three hours less a week than in 1970. And the pressures of competition make those hours feel like more. Maybe we are deliberately working harder so as to have less contact, less time for self-inspection. (These are self-interested but not introspective times.) I won't pretend to know what all this means, but if you have preserved Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter To The Year 2100 | 1/1/2000 | See Source »

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