Word: summering
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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This year, the NCAA changed its distance format from the usual 1650 and 500 freestyles to the 1500 and the 400, matching the distances the Olympics will use this summer in Sydney...
...Fear of the specter of inflation will likely prompt further interest rate hikes by the Fed - Baumohl expects rates to rise a half percent by the summer - but the economy may already have gotten Greenspan's message. "Remember, the latest numbers are already out of date," says Baumohl. "Many analysts believe the economy is already slowing to a growth rate closer to 3.5 percent as the effects of the rate hikes since last June are felt." But the new numbers highlight a growing debate among economists over whether the rules of the economy have changed. While the Fed remains wedded...
...million to him--were all "friends and family" eerily echoed Clinton's first line of defense when the high turnover in the Lincoln Bedroom was disclosed. And when Bush wanted to prove he was now up to speed on world leaders, after having failed a surprise pop quiz last summer, he goaded a reporter to ask him who the President of India is. He shouted the name of the Prime Minister instead. He wasn't trying to be funny...
...boat that took two years to build took two dozen years to plan. The idea of re-creating the Amistad was first floated by Warren Marr, former editor of the N.A.A.C.P.'s national magazine, during the 1976 Bicentennial celebrations. That summer, harbors around the U.S. were bobbing with tall ships participating in Operation Sail, and Marr couldn't help noticing the underrepresentation of African Americans in the event. Rebuilding the Amistad, he figured, might be just the way to remedy that...
...limitations of technology, the demand that greeted his short story surprised him. "This is a watershed moment," he told TIME in an exclusive interview from his home on Florida's Gulf Coast, where he is recovering from extensive injuries he suffered when he was hit by a car last summer. ("I'm delighted to be alive," says King. "I'm having a great time.") Based on his success, he says, he's considering publishing a serialized novel online: "If I were to do something like that, whether they wanted it to or not, it would force a lot of people...