Word: lines
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...After all, it was not scandal but policy concerns that led Congress in 1997 to strip President Clinton of his powers to negotiate "fast-track" trade pacts - agreements that could be put to the legislature in total, rather than be amended on a line-by-line basis. The President lost that vote because of the defection of pro-labor Democrats determined to avoid being railroaded into another NAFTA agreement. Nonetheless, that sent a message to America's potential trade partners: Don't bother to negotiate comprehensive agreements with the President, because he has no authority to deliver. The fast-track...
...bottom line is that the manufacturers of homeopathic remedies are raking in hundreds of millions of dollars a year for products that may be no more effective than ordinary tap water and are probably not as pure. Yet proponents abound, particularly in Europe. A standard boast, in fact, is that the British royal family uses and believes in homeopathic products...
...VLADIMIR PUTIN has cabled his embassy in Washington demanding periodic updates on what the polls show, and Russian diplomats have been hitting the lunch circuit to mine reporters and pundits on who is ahead--or, to be more precise, on how GEORGE W. BUSH is doing. And how hard line his foreign policy advisers...
...Number of seconds into his latest single, Shake Ya A__, before he utters the line, "Bend over...
...Look at the chart - this has been on the horizon for a while. From the March peak of 5132 to Friday's close of 3029, the general direction of the NASDAQ graph - what's called the trend line - is a consistent downward slope. It's tested its low of 3026 several times, in May, in October, and last week, and, as technical analysts like to say, "there's no such thing as a quadruple bottom." When the trend line hits the floor, the floor gives way. Then the floor turns into the ceiling...