Word: microcosms
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...last two weeks of this race look to be a microcosm of the summer. Bush grabs lead, for reasons that still baffle - Freshness? Likeability? Conservatism? - Gore chugs back on the issues but seems, for a good-times incumbent, to have a curious problem closing the deal. And though the polls are the prevailing wind, the campaign will be won in swing-state bunkers. You want a game of inches? The death of Mel Carnahan in Missouri may have won it for Bush already...
...college is a microcosm of the population at large," she said. "Our [statistics] for STDs are probably the same as the rest of the population...
...wait, along with a microcosm of America, until October 20, when I shall sit by my phone from 4 to 8 p.m., waiting patiently to hear of my fate. And even if I do not get "the call," I will be content with the knowledge that our society has made one road to economic security open to anyone who has ever made pancakes...
...been within the margin of error in the polls. That's not surprising. The two popular pols have cast a shadow over Missouri politics for a generation. They've won nine statewide races between them. But the contest is more than a Show Me state battle. Missouri is a microcosm: it has picked the winner in every presidential election this century except one ('56), and is an important battleground in the tight presidential race...
...portraying a broad swath of national history through the wise eyes of a young observer has its precedent in such reality-bending epics as Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum and Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children. Mugezi and all the members of his extended family play out, in microcosm, the upheavals of postcolonial Africa: the diaspora from stable rural societies into hectic cities governed by money rather than loyalties. Mugezi learns that he must be devious and tough simply to stay alive. He fights what he sees as the tyranny of his parents and the authoritarian rule...