Word: get
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...DELAY With D-day getting ever closer, he may yet get to be kingmaker. Bipartisanship is so last week...
...setting: any airport, U.S.A. The victims: you and your laptop. Action! You put your computer on the X-ray conveyor belt and get in line for the metal detector. The guy in front of you gets stopped and has to empty his pockets. Turns out he's a walking scrap heap, and it takes him five minutes to get through. Meanwhile, your defenseless laptop is waiting helplessly on the other side. By the time you're finally through, it's gone--swiped by Scrap Heap's accomplice on the other side...
...really got something to say and lose the Secret Service detail when you're in the Capitol. Senators hate colleagues with too many "suits" around them. Clinton has been huddling with BARBARA MIKULSKI, dean of the Democratic women in the Senate, about how to please constituents and get "super A" committee assignments out of the old boys who still run the club. Clinton's top committee choices: Finance and Appropriations. Her legislative priority after being sworn in next month: a pork-barrel bill for upstate New York. "She's asked me workhorse questions," says Mikulski. "She didn't ask where...
...have to wait for those plums. She may bump hulls with CHARLES SCHUMER, New York's senior Senator, an aggressive press hound back home. She's received a mixed welcome from Republican Senators, who remember her haughty attitude when she was in charge of trying to get health-care reform through Congress. Majority leader TRENT LOTT huffed that she'll be "one of 100, and we won't let her forget it." But G.O.P. Senator PHIL GRAMM tells TIME, "Anybody who can move into a state and get herself elected to the Senate, I'm impressed with...
...inflation from some 3.3% this year to under 3%. And while unemployment may creep above 4% as the economy decelerates, jobs should remain plentiful. Says Martin Regalia, chief economist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce: "The biggest concern of businesses from high tech to trucking is, 'Where will we get the workers to keep growing...