Word: priore
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...culture of scarcity. At no time was there either need or resources available to share the intellectual wealth beyond a select few. There was no point, for instance, in teaching literacy to the masses without an adequate number of printing presses to provide them with texts. In any case, prior to the Age of Exploration and the Industrial Revolution, there would have been little a literate majority could have done job-wise. Innovation has, all along, been an elite-driven, top-down thing. For much of history, the task of the individual innovator, working for some entity, state or private...
...Sauls overruled the objections time and again, and finally David Boies leaned over to Zack and gently pushed his co-counsel back into his chair. On cross, Zack did get Grossman to admit he had no idea what sort of storage facility the voting machines had been placed in prior to their most recent usage. "Doesn't heat harden rubber, Mr. Grossman? Isn't it possible this urethane wasn't kept in the air-conditioning and it overheated, making it more difficult to use in a voting machine?" Zack demanded...
This first scene sets the pace and the degree of absurdity for the entire play. Next, the household widens as a man who, according to Nora, "looks like Tom" appears to be living upstairs in a semi-comatose state. This man is, in fact, Tom himself, who 10 years prior had abused the family, tried to burn the house down and abandoned them, and who is now back and recognized by everybody save for his wife. His daughters' reactions to him are mixed. Gail, who is tough, street-smart and devoted to the family, has forgiven him and even cooks...
...about all the people whose complete loyalty he could never count on. He has brought in Bob Bauer, the best election-law mind in America (and a Bill Bradley guy); Boies, one of the few players who appears to be thoroughly enjoying himself but with whom Gore has no prior relationship; and onetime archrivals Jack Corrigan and John Sasso, cutthroat campaign operators with whom Gore tangled in 1988. "We finally got the best people to do their jobs irrespective of their drawbacks," says an aide. "We never got that done in the campaign...
...than a traditional ruling but spoke volumes to the Florida Supreme Court judges, who will now decide whether to take the case up again and resubmit an opinion. In the meantime, if the SCOTUS decision stands, George W. Bush's lead reverts to the 900+ vote figure he enjoyed prior to the certification deadline extension...