Word: dashes
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...their co-accused each had their own court-appointed lawyer, who took their work very seriously. "I tried to contact my client," Tony Blair's attorney earnestly told TIME, explaining that he'd written the British prime minister a letter but had received no response. Still, he managed a dash of optimism earlier in the week about actually meeting his client and the rest of the accused, suggesting "Maybe they'll show...
Luckily for Harvard, sophomore Matt Leiszler was able to come in and give the offense a spark. Leiszler accounted for the only Harvard touchdown of the first half on a 31-yard dash from scrimmage...
...idea: you give seniors a chance to opt out of Medicare. If they want to, you hand them a chit worth a specified amount of money and send them shopping for their own health coverage. Bureaucracy gives way to the forces of the free market. Insurance companies, in a dash to sign up tens of millions of new policyholders, come up with an array of attractive new offerings well beyond Medicare's--dental coverage, eyeglasses, hearing aids, annual physicals, prescription drugs. Everyone benefits--and at far less cost to the government...
...line that she found "Republican" right between "reptile" and "repugnant" was a an easy crowd-pleaser, but seemed oddly incongruous in the new Lieberman era. Salma Hayek was so enthused with saying "Al Gore rocks!" that she walked offstage forgetting to introduce the next act, and had to dash back to announce Jon Bon Jovi. Perhaps the most enthusiastically received line of the night came from the boyish Matt Damon who equated George Bush with Fredo from the "Godfather" movies. "And they wouldn't even let him run the family business...
...idea: you give seniors a chance to opt out of Medicare. If they want to, you hand them a chit worth a specified amount of money and send them shopping for their own health coverage. Bureaucracy gives way to the forces of the free market. Insurance companies, in a dash to sign up tens of millions of new policyholders, come up with an array of attractive new offerings well beyond Medicare's--dental coverage, eyeglasses, hearing aids, annual physicals, prescription drugs. Everyone benefits--and at far less cost to the government...