Word: instead
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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While Gore was flailing, Bush began trotting out a series of proposals--involving missile defense, arms reduction, allowing people to invest part of their Social Security money in the stock market--that were debatable as policy but made Bush seem more serious and moderate than he had before. Instead of offering his own vision of the future, Gore spent April and May attacking Bush's plans, even canceling a week's vacation so he could rebut Bush's Social Security idea. That strategy worked well against Bill Bradley in the primaries, but six months before the general election--when Gore...
...latest estimates--who have joined the movement known as Otpor, Serbian for resistance. Virtually unknown until a few months ago, the group is generating as much anti-Milosevic heat as anything since the end of the NATO campaign a year ago. Otpor has few leaders, relying instead on an informal web of student connections. And unlike the country's traditional opposition groups, which spend more time jockeying for power than pushing for change, Otpor has no political ambitions, according to its supporters, just a desire to be a catalyst...
...Shaft is meant to attract! The problem is not just that Jackson, normally as good an actor as they come, is to Roundtree what George Lazenby, who played James Bond in the deservedly forgotten On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), is to Sean Connery. It's that instead of updating the heroic Shaft of the '70s to fit the ambiguous racial climate of the new century, the makers of this disgraceful film have pulled the character inside out and transformed him into a thug. If this Shaft were a real-life member of New York City's Finest...
...than a cinematic gangsta-rap song. The original Shaft--one of the first black movie heroes to talk back to the Man and get away with it--meant something special to blacks like me who came of age during the '70s. We could use another hero like that now. Instead we got the shaft...
...shares of Oracle in mid-July at $85 a share. Oracle is now trading at about $81. Say the stock soars to $91, a full 6 points above the strike price. The gambler's profit is $600, or double his investment. Had he bought the stock instead of the option, his $600 would have fetched only seven shares, and the rise to $91 would have netted just...