Word: tented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...close, having agreed not to ambush her. While many children of the highly placed are attention-mongering monsters or sullen recluses, Chelsea came across during grueling hours of travel as relaxed and friendly, informed without being a smarty-pants, gracious even when sitting cross-legged in a 100[degree] tent for an hour in India with bamboo weavers. She seemed to love her mother, of course, but also to like her, in a way that can't be faked. At Mother Teresa's orphanage, Chelsea picked up a baby and grew alarmed when the little girl started crying. She then...
...wandered into the wrong room. Dole invited into the hall the God of the Old Testament, and all around the room the faithful stirred. The culture warriors and evangelicals complained all week that they had won the platform and lost the podium, as a series of pro-choice, big-tent messengers dominated prime time. But as it turned out, the big speech really belonged to the devout. Dole mentioned abortion barely at all, but he placed himself so clearly in the hell-in-a-handcart camp that he had to pull back at the end and declare himself the "most...
Anyone watching the convention on TV could hardly be blamed for thinking the Republican tent was big to the point of popping seams. Inclusion was the word of the week, and black faces were everywhere on camera. In fact, there were relatively few blacks present in an official capacity--just 52 of the 1,990 delegates--in part because the G.O.P. resists any change in its delegate-selection rules. For instance, rules awarding extra delegates to states with Republican governors end up favoring places like New Hampshire, where minorities tend to be a smaller share of the population. Some delegates...
...abortion rights. "We're not afraid of debate," said party chairman Christopher Dodd. One of Clinton's most vocal critics on the welfare issue, Jesse Jackson, said the convention should highlight the unity, not the discord, in the party. "In 1968, when the issue was warfare, the big tent split and we lost," Jackson said. "Now, the issue is welfare, the big tent must not split." Vice President Al Gore already began the effort to ease the fears of liberals about the bill, saying that if Clinton is re-elected, "we will have an opportunity to fix" provisions, such...
...arises from technological advances that have spawned a host of new synthetic fabrics and materials. These innovations are unprecedentedly light and durable, not to mention increasingly resistant to heat and cold. Even better, especially from the seller's standpoint, the rapid improvements can make relatively new equipment seem outmoded. Tents, once made of canvas or nylon, are now composed of fiber glass and aluminum, materials that have shaved a pound and a half from the average tent weight in the past five years. Ranging in price from $200 to $900, today's high-tech tents often feature near-vertical walls...