Word: shadowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...topsy-turvey world of presidential politics, where perception is everything and reality is merely a shadow of itself, a candidate only needs to do better than expected...
Perhaps all those years of dreaming about true love and formulating my own version of the True Romantic Moment have made me afraid that when The Moment appears in real life, it will only be an anemic shadow...
...needed time to reflect on what to do next," he says, reminiscing about halcyon days spent living in the shadow of the era's emerging hippie culture...
Maryland Congresswoman Constance Morella claims she is "afraid to go to sleep at night for fear of waking up and finding another agency has been moved to West Virginia." D.C.'s elected shadow senator, Jesse Jackson, says the migration "smacks of racism." That is merely Jackson's way of saying he doesn't like it. It's true the affected federal employees suffer the trauma of either uprooting their families or losing their jobs. But the same trauma is faced by employees of the many businesses enticed into the Washington area, often with the energetic help of these same members...
...transcended Vietnam. In an "Army" magazine article summarizing the war, Vietnam appears as a constant shadow: "The conduct of this war was a far cry from Vietnam." George Bush made it as explicit as possible: Unlike Vietnam, he said, American troops in Iraq would not fight "with one arm tied behind their backs." As if that were the problem in Vietnam...