Word: left
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...same voters who supported a centrist in 1992 could now support a left-of-center candidate, he says...
After 20 years of service, former director James S. Miller left the department of financial aid last September to work in development at Brown University, and a committee began a nationwide search for his replacement...
There is another sizable chunk of the holiday market still left to be served--the procrastinators. E-commerce traffic began to taper off in mid-December as shoppers worried that online deliveries wouldn't arrive on time. Who could blame them? Wal-Mart and others warned Web shoppers as early as Dec. 12 that they couldn't guarantee delivery by Dec. 25. But with overnight delivery, Weiner says, "I don't see any reason why the Net couldn't serve that last-minute shopper." Better get cracking on that back end. --With reporting by Jacqueline Savaiano/Los Angeles
...evenings, trying to impress the commanders at the next stop in their training. (Everyone else swears they'll start hitting the sweats any day now). As a company, we tear through the "confidence course" - walls, towers, rope climbing, etc. - with reasonable gusto. After all, we have only two weeks left, half of that reserved for the equipment-cleaning and paperwork of "out-processing," and there is only one real ordeal - three days' camping in the field - between us and the Exit sign...
...While finance reformers hailed it as a victory, politicos who've staked their campaigns on reforming the U.S.'s political contribution system, including White House hopefuls Bill Bradley and John McCain, still have a lot left to fight for. You can still give as early and often as you like to party war chests, which means that the ruling does nothing to overturn the 1976 Buckley decision that paved the way for the soft money contributions that are the scourge of today's finance reformers. Still, allowing states to impose spending caps will have far-reaching consequences; currently about...