Word: everly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Ever since Pat Buchanan ran off and joined the Reform Party--that great untethered life raft for political misfits--the Republican Party has been missing a certain something. George W. Bush and John McCain are tediously moderate, and the alternatives have sometimes seemed a self-negating rack of eight balls. But last week, as Orrin Hatch quit, Gary Bauer joined Pat Boone in the Unhip Hall of Fame and Steve Forbes seemed suddenly passe, Alan Keyes was poised to become the new leader of the American fringe...
...interest rates at least a quarter of a percentage point--25 basis points in the Street's calibration (1 percentage point equals 100 basis points)--and they fear more increases are on the horizon. Money flows out of stocks when rates rise or seem likely to, and did it ever last week. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 513 points, to 10,738.87, its lowest level since Nov. 11. The tech-driven NASDAQ shed...
...snoozed through the State of the Union, or maybe you were watching WWF Smackdown on UPN instead. Here's the lowdown: at 89 minutes, it was the longest personally delivered State of the Union speech ever. (In 1946, Harry Truman sent his 25,000-word message to be read by a clerk. It took more than three hours.) Clinton spoke 9,298 words at 104 words per minute, a leisurely pace compared with his 9,375-word, 116-words-per-minute marathon in 1995, delivered in 81 minutes. The 2000 address received a record 119 ovations. Not one Supreme Court...
Kadiatou's lawyer, Anthony Gair, says her "strength is remarkable." She may need every ounce of it to get through the trial, as every horrifying detail about her son's death is dredged up and his name is dragged, ever so delicately, through the mud by the defense. As it was in Simi Valley, Calif., where a jury with no black members acquitted the cops accused in the videotaped beating of Rodney King, the defense strategy in Albany is plain: say the cops were justified, and blame the victim. Talk about the fear that enveloped the four members...
...sides perceive as fair. So far, he has been up to it. When defense lawyers attempted to block prospective jurors who were black, Teresi stopped them cold and seated a panel that has four black members out of 12, twice as many as veteran criminal attorneys say they have ever seen in any Albany trial. As a local lawyer puts it, "Teresi won't be another Lance Ito." For the sake of the police, the people of the Bronx and Kadiatou Diallo, he'd better not be. If this trial slides into chaos, there will be no justice...