Word: though
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Though the concentrations vary immensely, most departments boast of their tutorial program's strength--and the quality of Faculty-student interaction that results...
...about the coverage middle-class senior citizens would receive under Bush's Medicare reform plan, and the other three addressed claims that Bush's tax reform plan includes disproprotionately large benefits for the wealthy. In addition, Bush used similar dismissive phrases such as "phony numbers'' three times. Curiously enough, though, out of all of these incidents, in only one case did Bush actually dispute the particular numbers that Gore cited (namely, when Gore claimed that Bush was proposing a $1.9 trillion tax cut, rather than $1.3 trillion). This led me to wonder what exactly was meant by this mysterious word...
Intensive Thinking was a revelation. Gore topped this category at 94 percent (on prescription drugs), though he hit a low of 12 percent while discussing farming. His average was 47 percent. Bush scaled 54 percent on taxes and bottomed out at 3 percent on health care, averaging 34 percent...
...pretty much stayed down, but was a handful off its lows. And before you knew it, the Dow had stabilized, wavering between 100 and 150 in the red, and then spent the afternoon chugging back toward zero, re-clearing 10,000 along the way. (No milestone celebrations this time, though, and toward the end of the day's trading it was heading back down again...
...Wall Street's wild day has everybody guessing. One thing seems clear, though: Even if it's a bottom, don't expect the good times to return just yet. With the economic-minded fretting about the winter and spring - Slowdown? Inflation? Both? - and the policy-minded starting to think seriously about the election, every earnings report is a tea leaf and every tumble a bargain hunt. The tentative consensus from the CNBC crowd is that with trading volume running higher on the sell-off than on the recovery, this thing may indeed be a bottom, but it's a bottom...