For seven years, Mr. Gore has played loyal lieutenant to a president who remains immensely popular with black Americans, and he has used his office to champion causes, bestow access, deliver federal aid and raise political funds for black officials across the country.
These messages can not only be used to discuss the document in question, but also to bestow access to the document to others.
At check-in, members of the hotel staff slap a cerulean bracelet, the color of Uruguay's flag, on the wrist of overnight guests, bestowing access to five thermal pools, a movie theater and tennis courts.
TODAY'S TECHNOLOGY has bestowed miracles of access and convenience upon millions of people, and it's also proven to be a vital new means of communication.
He is correct that direct access does bestow an advantage on those that can pay for it -- though in this case they have about half a second to capitalize on it.
A favorite with the pied-à-terre population, condo ownership at Time Warner, where the amenities begin with a Whole Foods market downstairs and extend upward to a roof deck with dazzling vistas, also bestows the privilege of access to the over-the-top spa facilities at the Mandarin Oriental, its equally swank sister tower.
What school will have the courage to turn down applicants upon whom funds have been bestowed with a promise of "access"?
Merely adding Al Sharpton or NBC and Oprah's resident education expert, R&B singer John Legend, to a discussion does not ensure that multiple perspectives will be heard or that expertise is bestowed upon unqualified folks with access to the media.
That's the bleak sense one gets from studying the recent Supreme Court argument in United States v. McDonnell, an appeal by the ex-governor of Virginia from his bribery conviction for accepting lavish gifts from a political benefactor and bestowing upon him in return broad access to government assistance and significant support for his commercial interests.
Oz has access to wholesale electronics, so he bestows a good new computer on Sam, an iPod on Howard, a foot massager on the still-suspicious May.
So while the FDA may not outlaw the seven remaining artificial colors tomorrow, Americans increasingly have access to naturally colored products, thus bestowing upon us the power of choice.
