Word: ways
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Casey Stengel used to commit terrible atrocities against the English language, and he had lots of winning seasons. If George W. Bush becomes president, we may come to look forward to presidential press conferences in a sporting kind of way, hoping for another of those endearing malaprops or manglings. That thought should "resignate" with you. Let me sew you to your sheets. Whatever...
...Gore wins, let us hope to be similarly charmed. Mr. Toad in the Oval Office. He can tell lies about how magnificent his administration is, in the way that Soviet blowhards used to say they invented the electric light and the designated hitter...
...TAXES." Henry Ford said, "All history is more or less bunk." All campaign promises are more or less bunk. Every presidential campaign is noisy and ruinously expensive piffle. And the candidates you think you see are not necessarily the presidents they become. (But that can break either way, for better or for worse...
...other hand (in the markets there's always another hand, usually a fist), if this really is an investing world again, where valuations and P/E ratios count, there are plenty of companies like high-flying Juniper Networks whose numbers are way too high. The companies have delivered on their earnings - that's why they're still flying - but by the usual, pre-bubble calculations these guys may not be quite done with their comeuppance...
...prepared to allow his government a period of grace amid the current turmoil, the violence of the past six weeks has reduced the Israeli public's confidence in the peace process to an all-time low. On the Palestinian side, overwhelming public skepticism toward the peace process has given way to increasingly open defiance of Arafat's efforts to restore calm. Even local leaders of his own Fatah organization have called for an escalation of the confrontation with Israel despite Arafat's attempts to rein in the street...