Word: nebraska
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...other hand, one can hope. This one hopes most of all for cars you can fast-forward through those boring long drives on the interstate. Zzzap! There goes Nebraska! Better yet--say it's 2025 and you're driving to Atlantic City or your mother-in-law's or a Jim Nabors concert. Just flip a switch, and the Zeno's Paradox-based, drive-by-wire, fuzzy-logic antidestination override feature cuts in to make sure you never get there...
...happy talk centered on whom, with McCain out of the game, Bush might pick as his running mate. The merits of Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge and Senators Chuck Hagel of Nebraska and Fred Thompson of Tennessee were all discussed. Other names were mentioned too. When the two men got more comfortable, McCain tossed off a few campaign suggestions. Take up Al Gore's challenge to debate, McCain advised. Don't settle for only a handful of engagements where the expectations will inflate beyond reason, but keep Gore in a tight clinch, debating early and often. Bush said he'd think...
...announced that it would establish a special compliance office at the Commerce Department to keep track of whether China is honoring its pledges to open markets and reduce tariffs. In addition, the Clinton Administration publicly endorsed a proposal by Representatives Sander Levin, a Michigan Democrat, and Doug Bereuter, a Nebraska Republican, to create a special watchdog commission that would keep tabs on human rights abuses in China...
TRAVELER IN CHIEF In 7 1/2 years our jet-setting President has graced every state in the Union--except Nebraska. Now the Cornhuskers are begging Clinton to squeeze them in, for their July Great Platte River Road Archway Monument dedication ceremony. It wouldn't be the first not-so-newsbreaking event he has attended. (Numbers are estimates from White House staff members...
...seeds have had some success in the NCAA Tournament. Last year, the first time the tournament field had a full 48 teams, six-seed Florida Atlantic won games against top-seed Michigan and four-seed Central Michigan before falling in close contests to Arizona State and Nebraska...