Word: bases
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...pick up John McCain's more austere economic approach instead, emphasize debt reduction and iron out the wrinkles in the tax plan. But Bush held fast because he believed he alone, not his royal mathematicians, had broken the code, concocted a proposal that was big enough to please his base and fair enough to satisfy the middle. Over time he got better at talking about it; he stopped confusing billion with trillion. By the closing weeks of the race, he talked about it everywhere, even in schools, and with every bit as much theological certainty as when he says there...
...commands a 90% share of the market--to allow rivals like Yahoo and Microsoft access to its IM systems. These cover some 80 million users under the AOL brand and a similar number under ICQ, an Israeli company that AOL bought two years ago. Says MacDonald: "AOL's installed base is the crown jewels of instant messaging...
...conceived it as a buddy comedy between a gay and a straight man (The Odd Couple without the subtext) but retooled it; now the gay Butch (Goodman) returns to his small town to reconcile with his unaccepting parents and his grown son. Terry Turner says the creators wanted to base the show on a universal--"Family is one of those things everyone knows"--rather than on gay jokes. (Right. We counted a dozen, six minutes into the pilot...
Other companies, including Ceiva Logic and Digi-Frame, sell digital frames, but Kodak's is the only one that lets you load pictures directly into the frame, send them over the Net and order prints--all without booting up your PC. The $300 base price, plus $5-to-$10-a-month usage fee, is no bargain, but it's competitive with other digital frames...
SUPER LIGHTWEIGHTS In a bear market, funds with a small asset base can hold an advantage over their larger counterparts. A smaller fund can trade stock and bet on up-and-comers without influencing the market. A fund with assets below $50 million raises the question of why it's so unpopular. But there are always strong performers that should not be overlooked because they're new or have done little advertising...