Word: givese
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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The tone for the year was set. Remember when crazy Communist Gennadi Zyuganov was way up in the polls in Russia? Everyone was worried about that. So Boris Yeltsin starts the year by stepping down and handing power to Vladimir Putin. In Yugoslavia, Milosevic's bloody reign ends with a...
George W. Bush has a puffed-up cock-of-the-walk strut. For people who think he's a little too full of himself, his walk is further evidence. Al Gore leans slightly forward and barrels along without looking sideways, which gives people the idea that he's not much...
But these days, Americans and their politicians trust one economic oracle - and Greenspan is it. And Bush's tax cut will be a snowball in Palm Beach unless the Fed chairman gives it his blessing.
Cleveland's voucher system, the appeals court ruled, gives parents an incentive to send their kids to parochial school and thus represents an unconstitutional "endorsement of religious education." By the court's reasoning, it's still fine for the U.S. government to give a Pell Grant to a college student...
Martin's Greenspan is a better read. A former FORTUNE writer, Martin gives us a real biography, one that winds through Greenspan's geeky youth (band, glee club, math nerd) to his stint as a professional clarinet player and time spent in the inner circle of author Ayn Rand, and...