Word: poste
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...What happens when we hit retirement, at age 40? We can try to relive our glorious twenties. Buy a nicer car, nicer house, nicer jet... But creaky bones and kids will get in the way of the monthly bungee jump. The dream of living a second, more exciting life post-financial sector seems impractical. At the age of 21 you chose the safe route to Wall Street. Is it plausible to assume that this same person will choose the adventurous path when they have a spouse, a mortgage and college tuition bills to worry about? A conservative at 20 does...
...another lesson in the vanishing line between the genuine and the artificial, the amateur and the pundit. And that was underscored in the news networks' post-debate "town meetings" and "focus groups," where the undecideds proved they could out-commentate the commentators. With disturbing professionalism, they dissected the candidates' performances and body language like bloodless insiders. "[Gore] seemed more genuine in his answers," said one - not "was," but "seemed...
...explosion of outrage, cries for revenge, Teddy Roosevelt bluster. Instead, the country seems subdued. Too many other anxieties are floating unmoored in the mind - fears about the stock market, about Middle Eastern war, about oil prices, about the possibility that the good-time '90s are about to turn, post-millennium, into their own evil twin. Americans have a sneaking superstition about Clinton: When he goes, the lucky '90s go. What waits...
...renowned for mental prowess, were the stewards of the great 1920s boom when GNP increased by more than half in under a decade. Coolidge simply repealed the war time tax rates and let the good times roll. And who guided America through the tripling of incomes of the post civil war, pre-Teddy Roosevelt era? Who indeed...
...ancient and quirky electoral system has been known to award the reins of power to the candidate with fewer popular votes. When Grover S. Cleveland beat out Benjamin Harrison in 1888 by a scant 0.7 percent of votes cast, his supporters did not engage in bacchanalian post-election festivities because Cleveland did not become president. The Electoral College ended up choosing Harrison (Cleveland did, however, win in a subsequent election...