Word: cuttingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Mobilizing supporters through cyberspace is one of the great advantages of e-campaigning. Last Tuesday, Senator John McCain's campaign, under attack by George W. Bush's forces for its tax-cut plan, sent out 50,000 e-mails to its volunteers across the U.S. Within 12 hours, 1,100 of them had responded, been given a sample script, and were working the phones...
...them run all the negative ads they want. But let the public be spared further debates.? A debate is supposed to have some discipline and sobriety about it. If Gore and Bradley were trying out for a Jesuit high school debating team anywhere in America, neither would make the cut. They are not even up to that standard of seriousness, let alone to the standard of, oh, Lincoln and Douglas, or Nixon and Kennedy, or even Reagan and Mondale...
McCain's frank attitude and independent perspective have won our affections. No Republican has presented a more sensible tax cut plan, small enough to avoid pushing the government into future deficits. No Republican has presented a more sensible approach to reforming the military. No Republican has been more willing to speak out against the party's corporate benefactors in the tobacco industry. No other candidate--of either party--has had the audacity to go to Iowa and rightly speak out against ethanol subsidies...
...CUTS BOTH WAYS Don't count on science to hand you a clear-cut answer about whether to circumcise your child. The conclusions of a major 10-year study are, well, equivocal. The risk of a baby suffering a complication--excess bleeding or, worse, permanent damage to the penis--is 1 in 500. The odds are certainly low enough to deem the procedure safe, but may still be too high for some parents. The benefits are also persuasive: for every complication that occurs, six circumcised newborns are expected to avoid urinary-tract infections. Confused? Talk it over with your doctor...
There is a critical moment during online shoppers' visits to an e-merchant: the point at which they have identified the product they want to buy but haven't completed the transaction. Some stay. Some bolt. A little hand holding can help reduce the chance of a cut-and-run considerably. First tip: Post a toll-free number, and staff the phones. Ken Seiff, CEO of Bluefly.com which sells discount designer apparel (big holiday seller: $79 pashmina scarves), attributes his company's favorable traffic-to-sales ratio to having enough live customer-service reps (70 during the busiest December weeks...