Word: mean
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...trying to fulfill my responsibilities here before I leave." Besides, she suggested, things would work out a whole lot better if Perry would just declare he is not running, and then she could stay in Washington and still run for governor. Some reporters interpreted her remarks to mean she might not quit if Perry insisted on running, but Hutchison's political staff quickly stepped in to say that her earlier statement on Texas talk radio ruled. (Watch TIME's video "Will Democrats Get Kinky...
...eagerness to get a deal - especially one that can attract Republican votes - he is giving away too much. The Senate Finance Committee, for example, is on the verge of a deal that would jettison the public option in favor of nonprofit, consumer-owned health-care co-ops, which would mean far less government involvement than many liberals would like to see. The Finance Committee, whose chairman, Max Baucus of Montana, is working closely with ranking Republican Charles Grassley, appears poised to omit any requirement that employers provide coverage to their workers (though they would have to reimburse the government...
...survey titled "Women and Nudity" by polling agency Ifop captures the mood. It found that younger French women not only have a problem with nudity - but actually consider themselves prudish. Fully 88% of the women questioned qualified themselves as pudique - a term that can mean anything from "modest" or "prim" to "priggish." And they aren't joking. Though 90% said they get naked with their husband or partner, 59% avoid being nude around their children. Sixty-three percent said they refused to undress around female friends; 22% said they considered a woman in her underwear already naked. (See TIME...
...some things have changed. I mean, for instance you were very much against an individual mandate. Could you describe how your thinking has evolved on this issue as you've sort of gotten - and also at the time you defined success as universal coverage by the end of your first term. I feel pretty good that I've been pretty consistent on this. The individual mandate is probably the one area where I basically changed my mind. The more deeply I got into the issue, the more I felt that the dangers of adverse selection justified us creating a system...
...when I see polls saying that it's 50-50 and people are still worried about whether this is going to somehow increase their costs when every bill that's out there would lower them, or that this is going to mean that they lose their doctors, or their health care is rationed, or, you know, all the other things that they're worried about, it leads me to spend a lot of time thinking about how can I describe this in clearer terms so that we can get the health care that the American people deserve...