Word: shorting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...suddenly as he had entered. "I had accomplished what I wanted to. It was time to move on," he says simply. Scott Matter, whose party regained the state house thanks to Kerrey's decision not to run, thinks his sudden disinterest is typical and unsettling. "He's got a short attention span," says Matter. "He's opportunistic. He could get bored with the Senate too." Kerrey concedes the point. "I could," he admits. Observes pollster Hickman: "He could walk away from politics and have a very fulfilling life. He takes issues a lot more seriously than he takes himself...
...well-developed case of heart disease. Eventually the narrowing arterial passage could be blocked by a blood clot or by a spasm that constricts and closes the artery. That could cut off the blood supply to his heart, causing possibly fatal damage to its muscle. In short, he is a prime candidate for heart attack, which annually strikes 1.5 million Americans, killing half a million of them. (Women as well as men are vulnerable to heart disease, though usually later in life...
...readers, any lasting shortfall in advertising leads to a reduction in news coverage. Most publications maintain a more or less fixed ratio between advertising pages and editorial pages, permitting short-term variations but cutting news space and staff if a slump persists. While few papers have scaled down as drastically as the Register, which is also burdened with a reported $200 million in takeover debt, cuts or hiring freezes have come at papers that were faltering even in better times, including the Denver Post, Dallas Times- Herald and Oakland Tribune...
Victory explains his military stature. Peace and prosperity define his presidential ranking. Yet those achievements fall short of the sum of Dwight Eisenhower. That other part of him is found in the nature...
...Administration, that would pare projected Medicare spending by $51.6 billion over five years, raise taxes on gasoline, liquor and cigarettes and leave income tax rates unchanged. A House-Senate conference committee then set to work ironing out the glaring differences between the two proposals by Oct. 24, when a short-term resolution to keep the government running expires. The Democrats predict that the final plan will probably contain a gas tax increase, combined with an increase in the top marginal tax rate to 31%. Fearing the cost of continued deadlock, Bush is likely to swallow his lips and sign...