Word: though
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...press, though, wasn't biting. Soon the media wave will wash over, and Lebed and his friend will be left in anonymity again. Let's hope they have learned something...
...parents who can afford to send their kids to college but would allow most of them to do so without cutting other expenditures. And Gore's tax credits would be of no help to the millions of working Americans who don't earn enough to owe income tax (even though they pay a hefty chunk of their wages in Social Security and Medicare taxes...
...weeks before a presidential election, nothing that happens in official Washington is not political. And though many news reports have called this the first peacetime release of oil from the strategic reserve, it is not. The Clinton Administration has played election-year politics with the SPR before. In the spring of 1996, as Clinton was running for re-election against Bob Dole, gasoline prices shot up 20% in some states. Dole proposed repealing Clinton's 1993 gas-tax increase, and three days later the President responded. He seized on an obscure part of a bipartisan deficit-reduction bill and spun...
...under severe conditions are a normal part of the development process--and then promptly turned on Ford. Echoing the sentiment of safety advocates, Lampe stressed that Ford had created a "low safety margin" by recommending a low pressure for tires on the Explorer--26 p.s.i. vs. Firestone's 30. Though Ford picked that level to improve the vehicle's handling, a low pressure can also increase chances of tread separation...
Well, not really, Nicole. The government nabbed him. He had to give some of the money back, and he may still face criminal charges. That's pretty uncool. The folks at home, though, aren't thinking about any of that. This is a gilded new age in which everyone has the right to get rich, regardless of the means. Historians document periods of prosperity such as the current one. These periods almost always lead to a high incidence of scamming as the get-rich-quick mindset spreads...