Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...focus groups with voters who found Clinton cheery and Dole sour. An unusually cheerless Elizabeth Dole snapped to a TIME correspondent traveling with her in Keene, New Hampshire, "I sure didn't like what I just read.'' Polls in Iowa and New Hampshire showed the Republican front runner losing ground and Steve Forbes bounding into the No. 2 position. The mood at Dole's campaign headquarters was edgy and defensive, with aides speaking quietly into phones about How Could This Have Happened and loyal allies insisting loudly that the speech had been fine. Dole aides insisted that he erred...
...Frank Luntz, "and yet Bill Clinton is using the language and we're not." House Republicans are muttering that Clinton hijacked their agenda. But to paraphrase T.S. Eliot's line about poets, good politicians borrow, great politicians steal. Now Republicans are finally learning what Bill Clinton means by common ground: your land is my land...
...voiced a keen interest in the region and regularly holds meetings on Burundi with senior Administration officials, and although U.N. envoy Albright visited the country on Jan. 20 to warn against any party's seizing power by force, such efforts have yet to produce noticeable results on the ground. Humanitarian considerations aside, Washington does have cause for concern. In 1994 the U.S. spent more than half a billion dollars to assist the victims of the Rwandan tragedy. Funds might better be spent this time in preventive action. More than two years of brutal civil war have demonstrated that talk alone...
Every time the company has shifted its focus and its strategy it has lost ground, and also some of its identity. Now it is very difficult to identify what Apple Computer really stands for. Once, the company personalized the computer age. The Apple value system and design philosophy that led to Macintosh computers placed a greater emphasis on the needs of individuals rather than institutions--what Apple designers once called the user experience. Indeed, Apple's continuing problem of how to find a strategy for success and prosperity is a reflection of the conflict between the company's original maverick...
...that life necessarily exists on either of the new planets. The question is impossible to settle with today's technology, and if organisms do inhabit these distant worlds they would be a bizarre sort of life, proceeding from birth to death, generation after generation, without ever touching solid ground...