Word: felling
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...been a rough few weeks for supporters of school vouchers. First came the Election Day defeat of ballot initiatives in California and Michigan that would have created statewide programs that return tax dollars to parents who send their kids to private schools. These measures fell by a ratio of more than 2 to 1, despite multimillion-dollar campaigns by wealthy voucher proponents. Then last week, in a verdict with nationwide consequences, a federal appeals court ruled that the voucher program in Cleveland, Ohio, violates the constitutional separation of church and state...
Last week's bad news showed just how much. Retail sales fell 0.4% in November, led by the biggest drop in car sales in more than two years. Both UPS and FedEx reported that holiday shipments are slackening, while Microsoft and Compaq became the latest tech titans to blame poor earnings on a slowing home-PC market. Consumer sentiment about the economy, as measured by the University of Michigan, is at a three-year low. Given the drubbing on Wall Street this year, that's not surprising. As the NASDAQ soared in the past few years, the market created...
...course, is taste. Among my panel of expert eaters, Martha's Cinnamon Pecan Sticky Buns were the clear favorite for their rich flavor, soft dough and impressive crown of chopped pecans. Least liked were cooking.com's Cinnamon Rolls, which my editor pronounced "bland, dry and undistinguished." The others fell somewhere in between. While one colleague thought Epicurious' Sour Cherry Pecan Cinnamon Buns had "a nice tang," others found the dough too breadlike. I thought AllRecipes' self-proclaimed Best Ever Cinnamon Buns tasted surprisingly good considering that packaged cake mix was a main ingredient...
...Greenspan already saved the world once in the fall of 1997, swooping in with rapid-fire cuts when the ruble imploded and Long Term Capital fell. He figured he was saving us again in 1999, this time from wage-induced inflation, with six rate hikes that ended with a half-point flourish in June 2000. And since he's been on a soft landing of his own, leaving rates alone while slowly climbing down from his inflation-watching perch...
...Probably the implication that by using the honor system, I was either displaying a naive belief in the honesty of my fellow man or (worse) indulging in a bit of electronic bungee jumping. Neither one. By offering the story in installments and promising to pull the plug if payments fell off, I felt that I had armed myself with a stick to protect my carrot. It worked, too. Part 5 payments fell steeply, but only after I announced the venture was nearing its end. I'm afraid that did bring on a certain amount of looting...