Word: trashed
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Bush scheduled his economic forum in Austin, Texas, this week, a round table with selected economists to get their take on things. Though they aren?t likely to say so at the forum, one worry many economists have is that Bush?s warnings will become a self-fulfilling prophecy, trash talking a wobbly economy right off the rails...
...majority. By stopping the recount, Justice Stevens wrote for all four dissenters, the majority was abandoning its "venerable rules," including the well-established principle of deferring to state courts on questions of state law. The dissenters concluded that the majority had "acted unwisely"--which passes for serious trash talk on the high court...
...coveted iMacs--was the year's clear (ahem) buzz word. Some of the year's top buildings played with teasing, gauzy see-through effects, and you could scarcely buy consumer goods not skinned in Technicolor plastic: the Handspring Visor personal digital assistant, the Power Mac G4 Cube, translucent trash cans and toilet-brush holders from the likes of Ikea and Target. And magazines and books were rife with die-cut covers. The luminous transparent things of 2000 thrummed with Jell-O-colored energy, as if so jazzed they could hardly contain their insides...
...panelists agreed that gridlock would consign such bold but risky plans as Bush's proposed $1.3 trillion tax cut to the campaign-promise trash heap. "There won't be any huge tax cuts or entitlement programs, whoever becomes President," says Bruce Steinberg, chief economist for Merrill Lynch. "That means the budget surpluses should remain extremely large, and the national debt will continue to be paid down--all of which is friendly to financial markets...
...basic facts in both were never in dispute: Two Republican supervisors of elections had allowed Republican party workers access to two stacks of absentee ballot applications, in order to fill in voter ID numbers - left off the forms in a printing error - and save the applications from the trash...