Word: handing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...scenarios - Bush, dispensing tax breaks to the highest bidder, rides the prosperity into the ground, whooping like Slim Pickens; Gore, horrified at the thought of making money from human and environmental suffering, chokes the economy with regulation - and there's still likely to be the need for an adroit hand at the economic tiller. And that may be a different choice altogether...
...voice of ordinary, hard-working people. I will work to get passed in Congress measures that decrease the influence of money in government, and increase the influence of ideas. And so there is a need in Washington for a fighter, a strong leader, not just a glad hand and a friendly face...
...believe that government should not reach all the way to your door - and then come inside. I believe that no government should hand back the people's money grudgingly, if you have a certain kind of family or a certain number of children...
...other hand (in the markets there's always another hand, usually a fist), if this really is an investing world again, where valuations and P/E ratios count, there are plenty of companies like high-flying Juniper Networks whose numbers are way too high. The companies have delivered on their earnings - that's why they're still flying - but by the usual, pre-bubble calculations these guys may not be quite done with their comeuppance...
...arms inspectors makes it unlikely that the sanctions will formally be lifted any time soon. But European and moderate Arab regimes have, to Washington's alarm, adopted increasingly liberal interpretations of those sanctions that threaten to make them meaningless. Booming oil prices have improbably strengthened Saddam's hand, to the point that even Washington may be cautious about provoking Baghdad into turning off the taps on the 3 million barrels it pumps daily and driving up world oil prices even further. And the anti-American rage that has swept the Arab world in response to the Israeli-Palestinian violence makes...