Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...test of his toughness; Clinton sees it as an opportunity, a test of his flexibility. Clinton has learned to welcome uncertainty for the gifts it might bring; Dole has learned to put it through a metal detector. And so with a week to go and a 20-point spread in the polls, it may not be much of a race anymore; but it certainly is a choice...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "President Clinton...has given us a big mission, spread us all over the world, and hasn't equipped the troops with what they need...
...want to be able to tell people you are a big man in Washington. You have dinner with the President, and your picture is taken with him. People back home will then say, 'Ah, this guy is well connected.'" In Indonesia last week, as news of the controversy spread, the Riadys were variously reported by their secretaries as being "out of the office," "on a business trip" or "on the other line." --Reported by Sandra Burton/Hong Kong, Michael Shari/Jakarta, Douglas Waller/Washington and James Willwerth/Los Angeles
Meanwhile, word of the seminar spread. A New York Times story claimed that it offered "the best conversations in New York City." One day a former Baptist preacher from Texas dropped by. Like Visotzky, Bill Moyers was not particularly nourished by the picture of the patriarchs he had encountered in Sunday school and seminary. "The figures were drawn for moral instruction and therefore had to be flawless individuals who ought to be in stained-glass windows," he says. Sometime after attending Visotzky's supper, Moyers found himself sitting in his apartment at 3 a.m., having just read Genesis straight through...
...Martin, a research scientist who works with Borovoy, says the tags have many promising uses. In a large corporate setting, they could help build consensus around controversial ideas. Another project, launched last week, uses the tags to help demonstrate to high school kids how easily diseases like aids can spread. Of course, Thinking Tags have an application that might seem particularly marketable to computer types more comfortable in cyberspace than in boy-meets-girl realspace. "The one that comes up 99% of the time is the singles bar," says Borovoy. "So if you don't mention that...