Word: manifestings
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Fear of failure is a great motivator. Hate also works nicely in a pinch. You don't see these emotions in Caroline Brunet's face. They manifest themselves in how the world's best female kayaker trains, how she thinks and how she speaks. With refreshing un-Canadian candor she tells you, "I hate losing more than I love to win." It's been her mantra, first in French, then in English, since age 13, when she won her first race at home in Lac Beauport...
...First, the political Gore who counseled Clinton to stand up to Newt is every bit as authentic as the techno-geek who's fascinated by fractals. Second, Gore went into politics for a reason. More than most other big-time politicians, he has an unshakable belief in his manifest destiny. His special purpose is to save the world (from global warming, mean-spirited Republicans, what have you). And this faintly messianic mission is joined at the hip with his scientific bent. His old friend and chief strategist Carter Eskew calls him a "futurist populist: he has a rare ability...
...nakedly opportunistic pounce on the Lone Star State's budgetary problems - a way to hit George W. Bush precisely where he lives by turning the governor's Texas record against him. In fact, Gore got so excited about this, he tore up his Washington-bound AF2 manifest and landed in San Antonio on Thursday. Forget the Alamo. Remember Boston Harbor...
...orthodox. You would be hard-pressed to find anyone who does not outwardly profess that a market correction and a separation of wheat from chaff are good for Internet business. But a lot of get-rich-quick dreams have died, and it would be surprising if disappointment did not manifest itself...
...possesses today. Different artists were considered important; different painters and sculptors exerted an influence on what was then the present. In some respects the art world was more tolerant, because the notion of an avant-garde was not yet all-encompassing. The ideal of high craft, of sheer manifest skill as a criterion of aesthetic success, had not yet been consigned to the trash can, and artists placed a value on drawing--however mistakenly they might sometimes have interpreted it--that was still very much alive...