Word: nevertheless
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...advice of their handlers, the two candidates have largely avoided situations that carried the slightest semblance of spontaneity. During the days preceding the debate, the handlers coached their men assiduously to ensure that no unscripted statement, answer or even gesture would occur in front of television viewers. Nevertheless, there is a limit to what campaign managers can control, and the debate was a rare chance for the public to see Bush and Dukakis react entirely on their...
...Japanese had known for 18 months that the Emperor's health was failing. Nevertheless, the news that Hirohito had vomited blood and was experiencing internal bleeding came as a jolt to many of his subjects. The Emperor's doctors diagnosed his condition as "obstructive jaundice" and said the bleeding was related to a swelling of the pancreas and an internal blockage for which the Emperor had undergone an intestinal-bypass operation a year ago. They acknowledged for the first time the presence of a tumor in the Emperor's pancreas. For four days, as he received a series of blood...
Both groups agreed that the election is simply too close to call right now, but nevertheless, they disagreed on the likely outcome...
Devastated by this news, the parents reviewed oddities surrounding their daughter's birth at Hardee Memorial Hospital in Wauchula, Fla., on Dec. 2, 1978. After delivery, their pink-cheeked infant scored a perfect 10 on the Apgar health rating. Nevertheless the baby the Twiggs took home suffered from a heart abnormality. The child's weight was allegedly changed from 8 lbs. 6 oz. to 6 lbs. on the birth certificate, which also recorded Arlena's blood type as O. A battery of genetic tests proved that the child the Twiggs had raised for ten years could not have been their...
...BOSS? Nevertheless, Bush and Dukakis have developed into better TV performers than one might have expected. The Vice President still steps on too many of his own applause lines, and cannot shake a penchant for bloopers (last week's premature observance of Pearl Harbor day). But his very awkwardness has become a sign of sincerity, and anger becomes him -- woundedly defending, for instance, his reference to some of his grandchildren as "little brown ones." If Bob Newhart took assertiveness training, he might turn out to be George Bush...