Word: surrounds
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...Surround yourself with good people: When George W. Bush ran for the Presidency in 2000, the biggest worry in many voters? minds was whether this one-term governor of Texas - who, much like Arnold, was not a gifted public speaker - could handle the job. Bush countered this by surrounding himself with the most experienced people possible; he selected Dick Cheney to be his running mate and hinted that Colin Powell had a spot reserved in the cabinet-to-be. Schwarzenegger did much the same thing during his campaign, appointing former Gov. Pete Wilson, a moderate Republican who handled California...
...Gilley, home means relaxation. Were you to visit his spread, you would probably see him mowing the 20 manicured acres that surround his 10,000-sq.-ft. house with one of his three riding tractors--or you could possibly find him striding around his walking track. "I'm trying to get down to my original weight of 8 lbs., 3 oz.," jokes the country musician, who weighs 177 lbs.--2 lbs. above his actual goal. He walks at least 1 1/2 miles daily, and he tries to play golf "every day that ends with...
...makes contact, a phone icon pops up on the dash; to make a call, you just speak a name or number. The navigation system is also voice-operated and recognizes 293 different commands. For those who would rather listen than talk, the car comes standard with an ELS Surround audio system that pumps out DVD audio--from Sinatra to Linkin Park--in surround sound...
...during the Oslo years, the Israeli settler population in the West Bank and Gaza doubled. The wall Israel is building as a de facto border to keep out suicide bombers doesn?t follow the 1967 ?Green Line? border between Israel and the West Bank; instead it appears designed to surround the Palestinians in enclaves comprising not much more than the 42 percent of the West Bank currently under PA jurisdiction...
...famed racehorse was "what all racehorses are--a bundle of ganglia, to which intelligence and personality can be imputed but never proved." You'd think Schickel was talking about a mollusk. By claiming that such intelligence can only be "imputed," he showed his ignorance of the complex creatures that surround us. This is an old, mechanistic view of animal intelligence that provides a pretext for cruelty. MARC SMITH Peterborough...