Word: shorting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...fact is, heating bills will be at least 30 percent higher this winter than last, according to the Energy Department. While the release of the reserve barrels may help to bring the cost down in the short term the next administration should have a plan for developing alternatives to oil that don't jeopardize our precious natural resources that exist in the form of wildlife refuges...
Both in the short-run and the long-run, college students, collectively, have enormous spending power...
...them to victory. And both have stumbled into autumn. Lazio has been criticized by Republicans for a soft, lackadaisical campaign--more a lope than a run. He took a four-day vacation just as the race was heating up, had little to say about policy until recently, and favored short, almost content-free events; behind the scenes, he raised so much money that he now has more cash on hand than Clinton. Some of his attacks boomeranged: his campaign assailed Hillary for kissing the wife of Yasser Arafat, then seemed flummoxed when the White House released a photo of Lazio...
...After struggling with their six-year-old's nonconforming gender behavior for years, Sherry and Paul Lipscomb decided a few months ago to treat their little one like a girl, at least at home. In kindergarten last year, he was Zachary, but after school, she was Aurora--Rori for short--a name the Lipscombs say their child chose in honor of the princess in Sleeping Beauty. Over the summer, when the child asked to have pierced ears and announced to neighbors, "I'm a girl," the Lipscombs came to believe that it was wrong not to "let Aurora express...
...short, you might safely say the Lipscombs aren't the Cleavers. But the county, perhaps recognizing that it's not a crime for a family to be dysfunctional, never saw reason to break up the Lipscombs--until the parents began to refer to their youngster as a girl in public. Since then, some county officials have treated the Lipscombs, including the troubled child, as pariahs. Claims and counterclaims abound. The Lipscombs say the child told them the foster parents won't use the name Aurora and hid the dresses they bought for Aurora; they've also allegedly belittled the vegetarian...