Word: lowness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, does, despite his low-key manner, but I didn't quite feel it until I rode with Bradley one day in his van between campaign stops in Los Angeles. Bradley told me the story of a Hispanic California state senator whose grandfather, an L.A. resident for a half-century, was afraid to leave the house without a passport after former Governor Pete Wilson started dumping on immigrants. That kind of injustice had, in part, inspired the granddaughter to get into politics in the first place. "You live for that kind of story on the trail," Bradley said...
...history, Bradley knows all that, but he's gambling that voters actually mean it this time when they say they're sick of negative campaigns. So far, the Republicans appear to be hearing the same message. Gore is the only candidate in either party who has regularly landed low blows...
...favorite parking spot near the State Department, then settled onto a well-worn bench. Whenever Gusev, 54, a technical specialist for the Russian intelligence service, fiddled with something in his pocket, the G's state-of-the-art radio-signal detector would come to life, indicating that a faint low-frequency transmission was emanating from a bug somewhere in the gray State offices...
...turned out, in a Kleenex box on his dashboard. Once satisfied, he got out and appeared to be working a remote-control device hidden in his suit. All this led the FBI to conclude--correctly, as events proved--that he had planted some sort of short-range low-frequency device and was settling down to monitor...
What about the camera? Right now, Canon and Sony have got the DV camcorder market sewed up. Each has a choice of cameras in the high-, medium- and low-price range. Expect to pay up to $4,199 and to get what you pay for. Real professional quality means a camera with three CCDs--that is, three separate prisms to capture red, green and blue light--and a shotgun microphone, like the one boasted by the $2,500 Canon GL-1. But, hey, who said anything about professional quality? This is the Blair Witch era, after all. Grain is chic...