Word: less
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...figured 75 percent off would put the price somewhere south of $100. When you've parked between two Range Rovers and are standing next to a shelf of cashmere sweaters in the $700 range, less than $100 for a shirt seems terribly reasonable. I was sold - until informed that customers had to buy five items in order to qualify for the 75 percent discount. To understand the disappointment and betrayal I felt at that moment, you should watch the slickly edited, thump- thumping trailer for "The Contender," psych yourself up for a thriller, then, when it opens...
Tonight's debate provides a fine example of this caution. The Republican camp vied unsuccessfully for a shorter podium so that Gore's height advantage would be less apparent...
After the main questions were settled, other no less weighty matters remained--like which candidate gets to walk onstage first...
Material mom, faux East Indian princess, club-hopping sugar mama--Madonna moves from phase to phase with lunar remoteness. As on her last CD, Ray of Light, she continues to navigate her way through electronica, this time with French producer Mirwais Ahmadzai. Less adventurous than Ray, Music is more consistent. Madonna has to work hard to summon real emotion, but a few songs, including the skittery Don't Tell Me, manage a dry pathos. Locked in orbit high above mere mortals, she still has the power, on occasion, to turn our tides...
...prompt follow-up, Bush's regulators waited nearly a year to submit a revised version. Another volley of paperwork continued until August 1997, when Congress passed the CHIP program, overtaking the state plan. But even then, Bush took his time to start up CHIP, although the program requires less of a state contribution than Medicaid (25 percent versus 40 percent). When CHIP finally did start, last May, a total of five years had passed since the legislature first attempted to cover many of the same youngsters...