Word: summering
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...recent panic over rising gasoline prices highlighted the political improbability of either a Bush or a Gore administration taking the tough steps necessary to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Last summer, American consumers went into revolt when the gasoline price crept past $2 a gallon, and Washington was obliged to scramble for remedies. And yet, $2 a gallon may not be high enough: European success in curbing their own carbon gas emissions has relied in part on taxing gasoline so heavily - as much as 75 percent of the pump price in Britain goes to tax, compared with about 8 percent...
...Last summer, Cole placed 12th in the 1,500-meter freestyle at the Olympic Trials held in Indianapolis. Over the course of his high-school career, Cole was named state champion five times...
...state. And when Bosnia blew up, and then Kosovo last year, the Europeans were faced with the undeniable fact that they didn't have the muscle to intervene, and had to turn to the U.S. on a purely European matter. It was at a summit held last summer, in the immediate wake of Kosovo, that they set their requirements as a force of 60,000 that can be sustained for a year in the field. And this week they announced that the different European countries had committed some 100,000 troops, from which that 60,000 could be selected...
...step and simply elect the President by national popular vote? It seems logical enough, unless you think there is still something to this federalism business. We are, of course, a very different country than the one, riven by deep regional suspicions, that the Framers cobbled together in that Philadelphia summer. We are still not, however, one undifferentiated national mass. The consumers of California do not look on foreign trade in the same way Michigan's autoworkers do. People view guns in the suburbs of New Jersey very differently than they do in the towns of western Pennsylvania. The drive toward...
...Bush clan gathers every summer for fun and games in Kennebunkport, Maine, but this summer something special was up. The old man had invited everyone in his massive Rolodex to celebrate the Silver Fox's 75th birthday. It was all hush-hush, the old social secretaries and helpers and lickers and stampers, some of the old Bush gals and the hangers on, and of course folks like Jim Baker and his wife. They stayed all over the old fishing resort--at the point itself and at the Shawmut in town, and some bunked secretly with friends. And sure, they were...