Word: grounds
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...high on our SATs, we think of ourselves as intelligent. If we win writing contests and get As on essays, we slowly grow a healthy pride in our writing abilities. During difficult times, these confidences boost our spirits, and in good times they inspire us to new heights. They ground our ego and are foundational to our development...
Like Dole, Clinton ended the way he began in early 1996. At every stop on his 18-state final tour, he spoke of unity and "common ground," of meeting challenges together, of "opportunity, responsibility and community." He distilled his first-term accomplishments into a few impressive paragraphs--10.7 million new jobs, 4.5 million new home owners, and on and on in a giddy boast that took flight and soared clear into tomorrow: "Let us build a bridge together, wide enough and strong enough to carry all of us into the bright future that is America in the 21st century...
Democrats looking to reverse their waning fortunes in the South will want to study Mary Landrieu's textbook Louisiana Senate victory. Landrieu, who defeated Republican state senator Woody Jenkins, aggressively seized the ideological middle ground. She reached out to conservatives by calling for lower taxes and a balanced budget while reminding her party's liberal base of her steadfast support for Medicare and her work in the state legislature on behalf of women and children. And at every opportunity she labeled Jenkins an extremist, painting a dire picture of life in "Woody's World," where abortion rights would be curtailed...
...like all get-out. He astonished NATO foreign ministers when he answered a question about the long-term military security of Western Europe by saying his Administration had put 100,000 policemen on the street and created 10.5 million new jobs. And Clinton continues to stake out the middle ground by bringing up tiny but symbolic issues like school uniforms--practicing what some analysts call "the politics of miniaturization...
During the last weeks of the campaign, Gingrich appeared chastened. He insisted that he had learned his lessons. "You go slower. You prepare the ground. You make sure people understand," he says. This architect of the Contract with America refuses even to discuss an agenda...