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On the other hand, they care indirectly about their relative positions, because a high relative position allows you to attract a better mate.
Rockefeller's addiction to living in an expensive realm of his own, for creating his own entourage, ultimately accounted for Gerald Ford's decision to toss Rockefeller overboard and pick Bob Dole as his running mate in 1976 (something that will presumably be discussed in Reich's next book).
Reluctant to cede the precious gender gap to the Republicans, the first lady initially wanted to be Al Gore's running mate.
These studies involve a variety of behavioral tests of mate choice, analyses of hybrid fitness and the production of hybrids in the wild, and controls for alternative explanations.
It has always, since long before my time, been the custome for only the first part of a compound to be used, such as my old china (=china plate=mate) or up the apples (= apples and pears = stairs ), and it is generally believed that this practice first began among the semi-criminal classes to render their speech less easily comprehensible to outsiders.