Word: less
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...other has controlled Congress, the optimum formula being a Democratic President and a Republican-controlled Congress. That combo has produced Dow gains, excluding dividends, of 10.7% a year. The hands-down loser: Republicans with a mandate. When the g.o.p. has run both branches, the Dow has limped at less than 1% a year...
...entertainment rather than inspiration, Ways is plodding, less saccharine than sleepy. And Edward's debunkers say he uses leading questions to create the illusion of connection ("Did your father pass? O.K., Dad's here"). Still, his hits are often startlingly accurate, and the show's raw emotional appeal is undeniable...
...MISSING WINK Men, feeling tired all the time? A report shows that the amount of time guys spend in deep sleep declines with age, so that by 50--much younger than expected--some men spend no time at all in slow-wave sleep, the most restful stage. Less restful sleep may lead to that other indignity of aging: the middle-age paunch. That's because the body needs slow-wave sleep in order to produce a growth hormone linked to lean tissue. That's enough to keep a guy awake at night...
...Week--education--and spent their time rebutting Gore and explaining (and then explaining again) Bush's plan. This marked the campaign's first serious message derailment since last February, when Bush visited Bob Jones University while slugging it out with John McCain in the South Carolina primary. After a less than lucid detour into budget baselines, tax cuts and available surpluses during a stump speech in Des Moines, Iowa, on Monday, Bush brought the issue up again, unprompted, on his campaign plane the next day. "I've got to do a better job of making it clear," he said, launching...
...highways because of the collapse of Nigeria's railways after years of neglect. U.S. aid to Nigeria has mushroomed from $7 million two years ago - funneled around the government to humanitarian groups - to $108 million today. While that's a sharp rise, it still amounts to less than $1 annually per Nigerian...