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...talk to people, and I'm going to do a lot of it," Bush told workers in a Pennsylvania factory Thursday, unveiling a new campaign slogan ("Real plans for real people") and some new campaign plans. This thinking out loud - occasioned, no doubt, by some signs of mild panic in Republican ranks over the fact that Al Gore appears to have not only reeled in the Texas governor's lead, but even to have overtaken him in the polls since before Labor Day - is even worse when he's talking to journalists. "I'd like to be able...
...been willing to consider the idea. But Gore trashed its trillion-dollar costs and came up with his own idea for tax-free investment accounts in addition to Social Security (that lets him call his plan "Social Security Plus" and Bush's "Social Security Minus"). Next came Gore's mild distortion of Texas' budget shortfall--saying Bush had squandered the surplus on a "tax cut for the wealthy," when more money went to give teachers a pay raise. Then came his attacks on Dick Cheney's voting record in the House (never mind that Gore voted the same...
...combination of a mild winter, a broiling summer and outbreaks of dry thunderstorms that have produced much lightning but little rain has plagued Montana and neighboring states with fires of a ferocity not seen for half a century. From the central mountains to the western valleys, more than 50 homes have burned as well as 300,000 acres (and counting) of kindling-dry timber. Besides forcing thousands to evacuate, the flames brought down power lines and melted cars and trucks. Last week 6 million acres of public land were closed to civilians by order of the Governor, and each...
After former President Gerald Ford suffered one or possibly two mild strokes while attending the Republican National Convention last week, his doctors quickly predicted a full recovery. But his illness raised a troubling question: How could a team of specially trained physicians initially misdiagnose a stroke, especially in a former President, who, one assumes, always receives the very best medical care? The answer, unfortunately, is quite easy. Strokes are often misdiagnosed, even by excellent doctors, for a simple reason. Many symptoms commonly linked with stroke are also seen in other illnesses...
RECOVERING. FORMER PRESIDENT GERALD FORD, 87, from at least one mild stroke following an upbeat appearance at the Republican National Convention; in Philadelphia. Doctors also drained an abscess in Ford's swollen tongue, caused by a rare bacterial infection...