Word: less
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...shipwrecked boy last Thanksgiving as a godsend in their campaign to halt the slide in Washington toward relaxing the embargo. But campaigning to keep a child separated from his sole surviving parent may have been a fatal miscalculation for a political leadership whose power and relevance are derived less from its ability to mobilize its own base than from its ability to wield influence in Washington. While the ferocity of protest in Miami initially paralyzed the Clinton administration - and prompted Vice President Gore to break ranks over the government's decision that Elian should go home to his father - opinion...
...said. "They could be right. That's why we shouldn't spend it all now." Just $500 billion of it, split down the middle, for a good cause: One bit of legacy for Clinton and one for this Republican Congress. Fair enough? Afterward, Republicans couldn't have acted less interested. To them, a compromise offer from a lame-duck President means just one thing: Hold out for more. Especially when George W. Bush is up 13 percent in the polls...
...styles suddenly, clearing the floor and sending startled dancers back to their seats. This expertly crafted new CD revels in that thrill. The song Little Black Spiders comes on hard, like the Prodigy in a back-room brawl with Metallica; another track, the smooth Full Moon, offers up a less confrontational sound, melding glitter-ball disco with old-school hip-hop. On Koochy, Van Helden samples Gary Numan's 1979 synthesized pop hit Cars, pumping it up with contemporary club-land rhythms. These songs startle, annoy, bewilder--and ultimately entrance. Van Helden's real rush, it seems, comes when...
...much for Big Tobacco, though - analysts predict the spun-off companies will worry less about the U.S. market as they focus their energies on the burgeoning demand for cigarettes abroad. In tobacco-mad China and Africa, nothing stands between the Marlboro Man and a whole new generation of pack-a-day smokers...
...ZANU-PF party, which previously held all but three seats in the country?s legislature, lost 58 of the 120 seats contested at the weekend and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change immediately vowed to challenge the result in a further 20 in which the ruling party won by less than 500 votes. European Union observers proclaimed the two-day election anything but "free and fair" in light of a systematic campaign of violent intimidation by the ruling ZANU-PF, which the opposition blamed for their failure to unseat Mugabe?s party...