Word: shorting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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George W.'s dad couldn't shake the habit either. After he lost in 1992, the President announced that he was going to exit the scene, write his memoirs and play with his grandchildren. He would be, in short, the graceful loser Dorothy had taught him to be. But as the years passed and Clinton's personal problems increased, it was hard to shake the feeling that he had lost to a lesser man. If President Bush was disciplined about holding his tongue, you have to wonder whether it was because he had an even better revenge in mind than...
BUSH: Listen, I'm not dealing in history, I'm dealing in the short term. I'm talking about how Republicans have been defined by a politically deft President. I'm faced with perceptions that Republicans don't care about newly arrived immigrants. I do care about them...
...booms and busts of the Internet economy have taken on an almost seasonal aspect. Callow start-ups--initially apples in venture capitalists' eyes--become in a few short months rotten e-commerce or business-to-business fruit. Portals, community sites, e-commerce companies, business-to-business (B2B) verticals--all are Web sectors once hyped as the next big thing; all are Web sectors in which stock prices have gone off the cliff...
...their closest pals. Pitt's ex-fiance Gwyneth Paltrow was not expected to be in attendance despite reportedly receiving an invitation. All the Friends, however, were due for the festivities, in addition to as many disruptive journalists and hovering helicopters as the tabloid press could round up on such short notice...
Back in 1956, TIME called Mad Magazine a "short-lived satirical pulp." Now in his piece stating that irony is alive on the Web [ONLINE, July 17], James Poniewozik refers to Mad and asks, "Were you aware that Mad still exists?" Of course, your readers are aware Mad is still here! They learned 44 years ago not to believe everything they read in TIME! And Mad has a humor website madmag.com) That fact must have slipped through the cracks when Poniewozik was doing his exhaustive research on sardonic sites. What, us worry? NICK MEGLIN AND JOHN FICARRA Co-Editors...