Word: impressing
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...already been vetted by the White House last year as a potential CIA chief. At Gore's suggestion, the President invited Inman to the White House for a two- hour afterdinner chat about national-security issues. Though it wasn't intended as a job interview, it was enough to impress Clinton that he may have found his candidate. Not only was Inman a policy expert and a businessman with managerial experience, like Clinton he was a small-town boy from the South (East Texas) who had risen...
...Impress your dates by cooking for them instead of buying them diamonds," he advised the males in the audience...
Israel continues to impress at the Crimson end, allowing only a fluky Kelly Jones goal in the first 40 minutes and staving away several Brown chances late in the game, but like Tomassoni he didn't relish the outcome...
Where he got that idea: There was an episode on Mama's Family where Vinton tries to impress Naomi by telling her he has every TV Guide since 1963. My sister and I thought that was so romantic...
Clinton did have his reasons. He and Gore had been trying to find some whiz- bang final event that would impress an apathetic public. They were intrigued by White House poll findings suggesting that for all the fervor of his supporters, Perot also arouses considerable antipathy -- so much so that public support for NAFTA rises sharply when people find out the jug-eared Texan is against it. Maybe, they thought, the way to galvanize public support would be to remind people vividly who was leading the charge against NAFTA...