Word: bested
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...best tales is about the creation of this song, a Jones-penned tune (George was a prolific and talented songwriter early in his career). Rather than paraphrase, here's what the notes, written by Colin Escott, have...
...truth, this isn't one of Jones' best performances - his phrasing seems just a little off and he doesn't seem quite in the mood to milk every ounce of melancholy. It's almost as if he's miffed that Cash spurned him and that he's having to lay down the track to fill an album. But Jones is still Jones, it's undoubtedly a great song, and producer Pappy Daily has done a fine job of setting the scene, providing some haunting fiddle and a light touch of wailing pedal steel...
...worst: social conservatives at key social-policy posts like AG and HHS. And if Bush wants to keep Americans and the media focused on other things - education, Medicare, tax cuts, the agenda of the possible - he'll have to keep Roe v. Wade on the back burner, and the best way to do that is to keep the Bible-thumpers happy...
...ring: Despite carrying a "loser" label after having been beaten by Netanyahu in 1996 and losing a parliamentary vote earlier this year for the ceremonial position of president, current polls give Peres a better chance than Barak of beating Sharon. Moreover, Israelis rate him as the best man for the job of making peace with the Palestinians. But polls, as Peres himself once noted, are like perfume - they should be smelled, but not swallowed. Israeli voters tend to vote against rather than for candidates, and the numbers supporting supreme dove Peres may be an expression of unhappiness over Barak...
...express the hope that those can be resolved as rapidly as the 1998 Asian meltdown was. They also warn that a sustained downturn in the U.S. economy (made possible by its massive deficit and limited savings) could also deal a body blow to global growth. Even in the best-case scenario, the report warns, there are going to be billions of people left out of the party, and they're going to be terribly, quite possibly violently, unhappy about that...