Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...outweighing any specific issue is the cumulative impression made by the sheer number of them. Says Mervin Field, conductor of the respected California Poll: "If it was just marital infidelity, ((voters)) might have excused that, but the cumulative weight of that and everything else is too much. The degree of uncomfortableness is increasing day by day." Even while endorsing Clinton last month, former President Jimmy Carter lamented that the "volume and repetition of charges against him have created an image that he's not $ trustworthy" -- most unfairly, in Carter's view...
...This is not the kind of campaign in which the issues are playing a big role...I have not been impressed by the relative weight given to issues in this election...
Perhaps it's emblematic of our society that today's Tag Lines seem much more concerned with being clever ("When you tease someone under a pine tree, you needle them") and cynical ("A woman who tells her weight has nothing to lose") than with promoting moral righteousness and responsibility ("When the wells dry, we know the worth of water...
...This is not the kind of campaign in which the issues are playing a big role," says Glazer. "I have not been impressed by the relative weight given to issues in this election...
...same holds true of health care. When a mother gets prenatal care from the community health-care center and has a normal-birth-weight baby, it costs about $4,000, compared with a low-birth-weight baby costing $100,000. The Federal Government created community health-care centers but backed off them...