Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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While Shuttleboy contained only text, ShuttleGirl's website boasts a logo--a red silhouette of a female wearing boot-cut pants...
...United States is one of the most prosperous nations in the world, but every year 45 million of its people and 11 million of its children are left uninsured for basic medical needs. Money earmarked by Congress for state allocation to children's insurance is left untouched. HMOs cut costs by denying clients potentially life-saving tests and treatment. Home to the world's most cutting-edge advances in medical research, the vast majority in our country will never access such advanced biomedical technology...
...consumers--is that the GOP-dominated House has little interest in those disadvantaged by an expensive legal system. Large manufacturers don't need these get-out-of-jail-free cards; meanwhile, consumers and citizens looking to the courts for protection are increasingly coming away empty. In 1996, Congress cut by a quarter the funding of the Legal Services Corporation, which helps the poor find lawyers in civil cases. That same year, Congress prohibited Legal Services money from being used in class-action lawsuits, illegal immigration cases, and welfare disputes--the issues most likely to affect the poor...
...with the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, is viewed by some as a professional Pentagon crank. He says that if the nation eliminated its need to wage and win two wars at once, and scaled back on its purchases of Cold War?era arms, it could safely cut defense spending some $62 billion from its current $290 billion level. "Since the end of the Cold War the U.S. military has continued its Cold War practice of rushing new generations of weapons systems into production to stay ahead of its putative rival," Korb says. "But, since the collapse...
...workingmen without a college degree. They feel left out of the economic boom and threatened by GOP plans to privatize Social Security. They started out in Bush's camp, but many are tilting to Gore, drawn by his people-vs.-the-powerful pitch and worried that Bush's tax cut could put the economy off kilter just as they have begun to dream of retirement. Bush could win them back if he convinces them he is an equally responsible caretaker of the economy...