Word: existence
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Mileur said he too is doubtful that Nader and the Green Party will hit the five percent mark, mainly because economic times are good and because differences between the two major parties do, in fact, exist...
...trend has political scientists and civic activists complaining like never before: Campaign finance laws, such as they are, exist to curtail the political influence of individual donors and interest groups by limiting campaign contributions to $2,000. Under existing legislation, however, those same donors can funnel unlimited funds into the Republican or Democratic parties, which in turn use the cash to buy campaign advertisements...
...dirt about their private lives." The answer is "Good luck finding any." Meaning not just any dirt but any private lives. One more thing Ralph and Pat have in common is that both are consummate public men, dedicated to causes. Their inner (or even private social) lives, if they exist, are buried deep. In all the years of professional proximity, I've had exactly one purely social meal with each of them. (Not together, needless to say.) That's too bad, because despite Ralph's austere image and Pat's snarly one, they're both strangely good company and great...
...growing interest in DEET-free alternatives, Biorganic Safety Brands has developed a line of ShooBug Repellents that it claims are safe for use around kids and pets. Using extracts of tree and plant oils--most notably cloves--the new products block a neurotransmitter receptor in bugs that doesn't exist in humans...
...Adams' novels be stretched? Babel Fish--a device he describes that can be inserted into the ear to give the listener instant translation of all languages--doesn't exist. But h2g2 has licensed the Babel Fish name to a service run by search engine Alta Vista, which offers computer-based automatic translations of text in seven languages. There are plans to use that service to provide multiple-language versions of h2g2 within the next year...