Word: summering
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Wilkins, principal partner at the Education Trust, a left-center research organization, says her college-professor parents, who are sending her younger sister to Yale this fall, have calculated that under Gore's plan, they would not have to rent out their Delaware beach house as often next summer. "But if they were making less than $21,000, there would be nothing for them," she argues. "Low-income kids get the short end of the stick...
Gore's claim that Big Oil is guilty of "profiteering" may have more basis in reality. The heating-oil-supply problem stems in part from the fact that domestic refineries spent the summer making gasoline, because doing so ensured high profits. They didn't refine much heating oil because they didn't want to be stuck with large, high-cost inventories if the price dropped before winter. That didn't happen. Crude oil now costs about $10 per bbl. more than it did a year ago, and the domestic heating-oil supply remains dangerously low. So Gore found himself embracing...
...that Gore urged be released is not sold but "swapped": companies who win bids for it can sell it at current market prices, but they will have to return the same value of crude to the reserve next summer or fall. Prices will probably be lower then, so the companies will actually have to return more oil than they have taken out. Gore also proposes to ease the coming pain by giving a temporary tax credit for distributors who build up their oil stocks before winter and by asking Congress to spend $400 million to help low-income families...
...Hedgepath, president of Pegasus Originals, was vacationing in the Rockies last summer when he got a tip-off via e-mail. Internet users were flocking to a new website and furiously downloading his artists' copyrighted work for free. The site shut off the downloads when Hedgepath threatened to sue. But within days the same bootlegs were circulating on an underground, members-only site. All this easy Internet piracy made Hedgepath despair for the future of his craft. "Many artists have gone, and many more will go," he sighs. "I've talked to a lot who are looking for something else...
...years ago, it looked as though the movie world was about to knock Michelle Rodriguez out of the ring. The would-be actress was living with her mom in Jersey City, N.J., and laboring as an extra in movies like Summer of Sam; the thankless, anonymous work was wearing her out. Then she saw an ad in Back Stage for a Latina actress to portray a boxer in a new film. Rodriguez didn't box and had never auditioned for a speaking role in a movie before, but the ad intrigued her. "I thought, If I'm going to quit...