Word: could
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...lifelong student of the American comic strip, Schulz knew the universal power of varying a few basic themes. He said things clearly. He distilled human emotion to its essence. In a few tiny lines - a circle, a dash, a loop, and two black spots - he could tell anyone in the world what a character was feeling. He was a master at portraying emotion, and took a simple approach to character development, assigning to each figure in the strip one or two memorable traits and problems, often highly comic, which he reprised whenever the character reappeared...
...Shalala, bearing the White House's bad news in order to take a bit of the political sting out of the decision, sternly counted the ways in which drug companies could render the bill toothless. They could deny importers access to government-approved labels, rendering the drugs unsaleable in the U.S.; they could make deals with importers to keep their drugs at higher prices. And with only a five-year term for the plan, wholesalers and drug companies alike might just drag their feet until the clock...
...Clinton is throwing it back. He could have vetoed it in October, but that would have made life difficult for Democrats running for Congress. He could have just left it alone, leaving the implementation to Thompson and Bush, and spent his last days pardoning the Whitewater gang...
...knew selling a trillion-dollar tax cut could be so hard...
...surplus that seemed to go as far as the eye could see suddenly made tax cuts a stump speech staple again. "It's your money," Bush used to say - and soon the targeted vs. across-the-board debate reared its head as a partisan issue. But in the fight for the swing voters who had slowly learned to love fiscal discipline, tax cuts were not high on their presidential to-do list. Perhaps the best that could be said of Bush's $1.3-trillion-dollar baby is that it didn't cost him the election...