Word: shorting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Corporations shouldn't run the government," Mark says with a lighted butt, stabbing cigarette burns into the body politic. Fine, but what do you gain by crashing the party? "In the short term, nothing. But you have to be in their face at every turn until you can build enough critical mass to shame them into reform...
...wheeler, the Mark Twain, steams into port in Hannibal, Missouri - the final stop on a nearly 400-mile trek down the Mississippi River. As you know from your own trip down this great waterway (captured in a recent special issue of TIME magazine), life on the Mississippi is nothing short of spectacular...
...Monday, accusing the president and Vice President Al Gore of allowing the nation's military to decay." Change that subject, W. WSJ's Greg Jaffe is on it, though, with piece on Clinton unloading (money) back: "amid criticism from Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush that the military is short on soldiers and equipment, [Clinton] is set to give the Defense Department an unexpected boost to its budget for fiscal 2002." Bill Tries to Help, Gives Bush Argument Credibility...
...Politics sections are running pretty short Tuesday...
...According to the most recent analysis, an electrical short circuit caused the center-wing fuel tank on the Boeing 747 to explode. But beyond that general consensus, nobody knows exactly why. Except, of course, the rabble-rousers: Federal investigators, who've spent much of the last four years up to their elbows in this convoluted case, bristle at conspiracy theorists' continued accusations that the NTSB and FAA are covering up the true cause of the crash. Early speculation that terrorist action brought the plane down was quickly discounted, but several passengers' family members and a few enthusiastic intrigue-seekers have...