Word: shorting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Seeing the same results over a short period could cause people to think, incorrectly, that one candidate is more ineffective, or resilient, than he actually is. If a candidate comes out with a major new initiative, as Bush did recently with his "Real Plans for Real People", the effect of the initiative won't appear for about a week. This isn't because the candidate's message isn't working. Its simply because of the way polls are constructed...
Nevertheless, these proposals are merely a means to a higher end. Neither candidate, nor their supporters, should be content with a health care system that falls short of universal coverage. Only then will our nation be truly prosperous...
...Olympics, there was the short- lived Dan vs. Dave rivalry that never materialized. Yet even though it fizzled, the hype was worth the subsequent anti-climatic purge...
After the former fastest man in the world, Donovan Bailey, battled back from a ruptured achilles and a pulled hamstring just to compete in Sydney, isn't it just a little tragic that a case of the flu forced the 32 year-old to pull up short 50m into his quarterfinal race...
...nine-month incarceration is off; rather, FBI director Louis Freeh is set to detail his agency's case against Lee before the Senate Tuesday - the same day as the New York times published a nuanced mea culpa for the instances in which its coverage of the story "fell short of our standards." In an effort supposedly to justify the government's incarceration of the fired Los Alamos nuclear scientist - questioned even by President Clinton following Lee's release - Freeh reportedly plans to allege that Lee met a suspected spy in 1982 and had a relationship with the head of China...