Word: shorting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...urban America been inexorably associated with blackness. What had started out simply as a joyous culture of black self-expression for a new generation eventually came to dominate the American cultural landscape. Will Smith may today be one of Hollywood's most sought-after leading men, but a few short years ago he was simply Philadelphia's ranking rapper, aka The Fresh Prince. And could Chris Rock have emerged as America's preeminent standup comic - making audiences laugh nervously as he rants on about hating "niggers" - without two decades of hip-hop having passed under the bridge...
...Gogh did not begin his life as an artist but as a preacher. The exhibit unfairly glosses over this fundamental decision and instead simply begins with a short biographical history and places his first drawings from 1881 and 1882, when he was living in The Hague, in the same room. This section features van Gogh's first portrait and his dark drawings of pensioners in charcoal, chalk...
...lost the American Revolution. We'd probably still be controlled by the British, we'd have better movies, Jude Law would thankfully be playing all of Mel Gibson's roles, our clubs would be hipper, our music edgier, our people smarter, our culture more respectable - in short, we'd be better off. Inducing such thoughts surely wasn't the filmmakers intent...
...work - if heating-oil refineries already operating furiously at 95-100 percent capacities can somehow refine more oil in time for the cold weather. It will almost definitely push down the short-term market price of crude, just like it did in 1991, because the U.S. government has now signaled its willingness to be a ground-level player in the world's oil markets at times of "crisis." And that's precisely the problem: "Crisis" has just been defined dangerously down...
...prices sky-high, since April, when a rebounding world economy and OPEC production cuts first began to push up demand. The idea of tapping the reserve in the current climate has been around since last winter (when Gore, by the way, resisted the idea, calling it futile and short-term). Where was the administration then? Well, all summer Gore, as now, was bashing Big Oil, and Richardson, as now, was begging OPEC nations to boost production. Both men have now resorted to more practical means, and in the process discarded one more principle - the separation, whenever possible, of government from...