Word: fasters
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...candidate's head, his mood swings, his flights of fancy, his blind spots. But the nature of these sessions has changed. It's no longer about getting to know the amusing long shot. It's about testing his mettle. So the gaffes, all of which are revealing, are coming faster and more frequently...
...Meanwhile, Gore is moving faster than past presumptive nominees to take over his party's apparatus. Campaign officials Donna Brazile and Michael Whouley are being pressured to move from Gore headquarters in Nashville to the DNC, and national finance chairman Johnny Hayes may soon follow...
That has Fed chief Alan Greenspan mildly concerned. When stocks fall, margined portfolios fall faster. What should make him lose sleep, though, is knowing that home-equity loans--now shooting beyond $500 billion--account for an unknown level of further market speculation. When home values and stocks rise together, "the gains from each help finance the other," he noted last November. If it turns out that rising home values are being mortgaged to prop up stocks, a crack in the stock market could hit home values hard...
...During yesterday's teach-in, PSLM members said Harvard should move faster to enact a living wage...
...standards of behavior which Alliance High requires would lead to armed rebellion in the average U.S. school. "We had to run to class," Thairu said. "Jog, trot. Faster than just walking. Our society expects it." For Americans, high school corporal punishment is just a Hollywood cliche of injustice, evil and sadism, as Maasdorp points out. "The only time most Americans encounter corporal punishment is in books and movies, and in most of these cases examples of corporal punishment being used unfairly are given," he said in an e-mail. "So I feel that people see it as an unfair abusive...