Word: closed
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...invitation was irresistible: "Wanna join us on Nantucket Island this summer?" Of course we said yes. We had always wanted to go there, and close friends were doing the asking. Then I did the math. Six adults and seven children would be sharing a four-bedroom house. We weren't going on vacation. We were forming a commune. Survivors of such experiments had warned us about feuding spouses, clashing parenting styles and conflicting itineraries. But they had also rhapsodized about the chance to reconnect with old friends or get to know new ones, the fun of cooking for a crowd...
...half of presidential election years tends to be a good time for stocks. And technically speaking, the S&P 500 looks healthier than the Dow. So don't read too much into this chart chatter. But be you bear or bull, get your ducks in order now. We're close to finding out who's boss...
...Womack has such a hit in I Hope You Dance, which has spent most of the summer as the No. 1 country single. A sort of 12-step program in verse ("Don't let some hell-bent heart leave you bitter/When you come close to selling out, reconsider"), this ballad by Mark D. Sanders and Tia Sillers gets a luscious setting, with Womack crooning it like a lullaby to a sad child. The song is sweet and swell, but it's not all that's special about the Jacksonville, Texas, singer...
...only way you'll be having an up-close-and-personal moment next month with Don Smith, America's lone and somewhat improbable entry in the Olympic men's sculling competition, is if all 120 or so members of the U.S. track-and-field team--as well as the gymnasts and the swimmers and the beach volleyballers--pull their hammies. Nike scolds us in its ads for paying attention to Mercedes-driving star runners just once every four years, but for elite rowers like Smith, most of whom live a post-collegiate, hand-to-mouth existence well into their...
...seconds left, I told Olene this was her opportunity to buck the political machine. She looked into the television cameras and stammered out her lines. About three-quarters of the way through, she said, "Utah: the only state that starts with U." Not quite what I'd written but close enough. She even got a small laugh. Overjoyed, I hugged Olene and nearly hugged Senator Hatch, until I remembered his name is Orrin. People may complain that this convention was overly scripted, but at least Utah was scripted...