Word: percenters
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...drawing. He couldn't see clearly, he couldn't read. He struggled to recall the words he needed. But all that might have been tolerable except that chemotherapy had begun to make him sick to his stomach, and the statistics for Stage-4 colon cancer gave him a 20 percent chance to live...
...talk on the campaign trail about tightening sanctions and punishing Saddam doesn't translate into a workable policy. And the strategic reasoning that stopped the last Bush administration from destroying the regime in Baghdad - that it would break apart the Iraqi state, dramatically destabilizing the region that supplies 40 percent of the world's oil - hasn't changed. The challenge for a Bush Administration will be to restore U.S. leadership of the international community on the question of Iraq, to be able to set the terms on which sanctions are ended and to limit Iraq's ability to menace...
...National Retail Federation has already lowered its forecast once, to a 5 percent gain over 1999 sales, and other analysts see 3 percent. Better than last year, sure, and still awaiting that post-Christmas pop. Not a disaster. But definitely...
...What happens between now and then will be the landing - 3-4 percent is soft, 1-2 percent is bumpy but livable. Anything less is the end of the greatest economic expansion in modern history, and a very serious problem for President Bush, even if nobody's at fault but the business cycle (and possibly an overly inflation-obsessed...
...terms are sketchy - the deal was strictly oral, and will simply disappear into thin air if either side rejects it - but whenever you hear the phrases "Palestinian state covering 95 percent of the West Bank" and "Israel to cede sovereignty over the Temple Mount," you know both sides will have plenty to complain about...