Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Looking for the sunny, specious hucksterism of the campaign trail? Step right up--Hillary will give it to you. This year's model is advertised as new and improved--less formidable and more fun, tenderized by a year of public humiliation, performing the silly rituals that campaigns are made of (hefting Hank Aaron's bat at the Baseball Hall of Fame, tucking into barbecue at a local rib joint) and loving them. Though one can't help suspecting that she sometimes feels she's slumming, she never lets it show. No doubt she is genuinely enjoying this moment of stepping...
...Here comes the learning part. "She has a wonderful, wonderful grasp of dialogue, but something struck me as slightly improbable," says Lindo. "She said to me, 'There you are on the screen and I respect you, and you step off the screen and come here and criticize my work, and it hurts...
...distributors and retailers to better ensure handguns don't wind up in criminals' hands, and firmer restrictions against selling more than one gun to an individual. "The proliferation has been an ongoing, evil threat to innocent men, women and children in our communities," Mfume said. "We've got to step up our advocacy...
...people have grown up so completely in the public eye as John Kennedy Jr. The little boy bravely saluting at his father's funeral grew up to be a magazine publisher ? and the cameras were there every step...
Despite the lovefest, says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer, "the relationship won?t be entirely free of friction. Under Netanyahu the U.S. became intimately involved in negotiating agreements and refereeing their implementation. Barak wants the U.S. to step back from that role and allow Israel to settle disputes directly with the Palestinians." That?s not as simple as it may sound, because the Palestinians have very little leverage and could therefore become obstinate if they feel steamrollered by Israel. "Reducing the American role gives Israel a natural advantage as the stronger party, and that makes the Palestinians edgy about...