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(Or at least, we would like to hear rival claims for that honor.)
Many politicians have wrapped their arms around this sturdy reinforcement for the efforts of ill-paid workers, but few if any have been so fulsome in their embrace as was the vice president in a November interview with Time Magazine . In commenting upon his rival Bill Bradley's proposed expansion of the EITC, Gore asserted, "I was the author of that proposal.
If the island’s lobsters are a worthy rival to Nova Scotia’s, its finest seafood is the oysters of Malpeque Bay.
Keeping it all in the family, you get your cousin Benny, fresh out of law school and eager for work, to argue that the public has come to love and trust the Widget Terminator and that people will be confused and deceived by the similarity of the name of the rival WidgetBuster.
In foreign policy, there are two rival schools of thought--realism and idealism--and Clinton, as usual, is trying to have it both ways.