Word: papers
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...then came the surplus, a $4.6 trillion paper windfall on which Al Gore and George W. Bush sketched out their competing ideologies and Clinton presented as his legacy. But voters, rightly, were a little skeptical...
...Colin Powell, Condi Rice, Andy Card and Ann Veneman, the new Agriculture Secretary designate, all worked for Bush's father. Paul O'Neill, the Treasury designate, spent ten years as a budget whiz in Washington before working for International Paper and Alcoa. Mitch Daniels, the new budget czar, worked for Dick Lugar before going to Eli Lilly...
...different methods to record and tally votes: 40 percent use optical scan devices (think of No. 2 pencils and the SATs); 18 percent use punch cards (think Palm Beach and Votomatics); 15 percent use '50s-era lever machines (flip the switches and pull the lever); 12 percent use paper ballots (drop them in a box or mail them in); 9 percent use electronic touch-screens; 2 percent use Data Vote, which is punch-card voting without the Votomatics...
...five straight years until this one, NASDAQ has averaged 42 percent gains. The Dow has averaged 25 percent annually. And all that happened in 2000 was that tech stocks, from networkers like Cisco Systems to software makers like Microsoft to e-tailing paper tigers like Amazon.com, have at long last confronted the reality of reality. The Internet Utopia, a world of limitless investors, limitless infrastructure, limitless customers and limitless productivity gains, is on a slower timetable than we hoped...
...preliminary version of the bill would have proscribed only the distribution of electronic or printed versions of the records. After sending the guidelines to consumers for feedback, the White House was obliged to intensify the language considerably, blocking not only paper records from unauthorized dissemination, but also outlining procedures for verbal exchanges between doctors, insurance companies and other medical staff. Privacy advocates hail the bill as "a major victory for consumers," as the Health Privacy Project's Janlori Goldman told the New York Times. "The administration went to great lengths to respond to consumers' concerns about the proposed rules...