Word: kind
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...just kind of a pledge to yourself," Stevens said...
...office arguing that it was "the economy, stupid," it is hard to see how foreign policy will be much of a plus for Gore in 2000--even against a Texas Governor who has referred to "Grecians" and "Kosovians." When Gore has received attention overseas, it has usually been the kind he didn't want. His badly executed 1997 trip to China produced a series of embarrassments, culminating in a clumsy toast with Premier Li Peng, who had been blamed for the massacre of student protesters at Tiananmen Square. And the greater a role Gore takes in fashioning Clinton foreign policy...
...course, Gore's only choice is doing what he can to make Clinton succeed. If it was Gore who planted the policy in the first place, perhaps it is fitting for him to reap the blame or the benefit for the outcome. He's got a vision for the kind of world he wants to see; Kosovo may well determine whether he gets to see it as Commander in Chief...
...what extent did Rubin's personal strengths make possible the enlarging of the Treasury Secretary's mission? The former Goldman Sachs partner spent years as head of the firm's arbitrage desk, a position in which he had to make billion-dollar bets based on inadequate information, the kind of predicament that he says often confronts public officials. To him, the decision-making process should focus on probabilities rather than the absolute nature of any choice. "It's not that results don't matter," he says. "But judging solely on results is a serious deterrent to taking the risks that...
...mail or live chat. Skeptics say the lack of nonverbal cues makes online therapy not only ineffective but unethical and possibly illegal. But two UCLA professors, Marion Jacobs and Andrew Christiansen, plan to publish a study in the journal Professional Psychology this fall showing that at least one kind of computerized counseling may actually work...