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Dates: during 2000-2000
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This was our own fault: we had put way too much pressure on the new millennium. We'd been getting geared up for the year 2000--a year so special we put the phrase "the year" in front of it--for a long, long time. It was 1982 when Prince released a song predicting nuclear armageddon or a really good party--depending on how you read it--on New Year's Eve, 1999. It was 1993 when Conan O'Brien started his "In the Year 2000" segment ("In the year 2000 Roger Ebert will be so overweight...
...gone from being a campus phenomenon in the late 1950s to a mainstream cultural powerhouse. Throughout the '60s and early '70s, the visual and verbal vocabulary of the strip was one of the only languages that kept both the younger and older generation fluent with each other. Schulz's phrase "security blanket," and his ideas about that most American of concepts, happiness, found their way into Webster's dictionary and "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations." The names and subversive attributes of his characters filtered into the counterculture of the '60s; the Grateful Dead's defiantly grubby organist, Ron McKernan, was nicknamed...
...that. Bush will likely send the plan to Congress as is already, but he knows that's just the beginning. ("The president proposes, Congress disposes" is the official catch-phrase.) And Bush has signaled his willingness to frontload the plan a little to get that spending cash on the street in time for it to do some good...
...clients and irritating his more peevish opponents for three decades. Fourteen years ago, the New York Times Magazine certified his status with a cover piece headlined THE WALL STREET LAWYER EVERYONE WANTS. The story referred to "the biggest case of his, or any other corporate lawyer's, career"--a phrase that has since been attached to Boies as frequently as descriptions of his frumpy suits and the slabs of beef he likes to eat--without vegetables and without sauce, thank...
...Instead of "compassionate conservatism," GOP leaders have begun peddling a different phrase: "common-sense conservative policies." What's common-sense conservative policies? An accelerated missile defense program, "broad-based" tax cuts, school vouchers, and privatizing Social Security - all conservative initiatives liberal Democrats, and many moderates, will fight ferociously on the floor...