Word: bumpings
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...ended. Propelled by optimism about the new President, consumer confidence soared in the final three months of 1992 and the economy expanded a healthy 4.7%. But Treasury officials now privately concede that the pace of growth could dip below 2% in the first quarter of this year and bump along at no more than 3% for all of 1993. That would do little to lower the unemployment rate, which has been stuck for the past two months...
...PALMEN! SCREAMED THE German tabloid. deathtrap under the palms! In the language of Florida tourism, that had worrisome further meanings: shame and financial peril. After Berlin special-education teacher Barbara Meller Jensen strayed off I-95 near Miami and was brutally murdered in front of her children in a "bump-and-run" robbery, German Consul General Klaus Sommer considered warning other Germans away from the city. Jensen was the sixth foreign (and third German) tourist killed in Florida since December...
...specially marked rental-car license plates that say "easy prey" to thugs. After meeting with Governor Lawton Chiles, Sommer decided to forgo his travel advisory. Two suspects were named in Jensen's murder. Her widower Christian seemed glad of this, but noted that in Germany, normally, "when two cars bump, you have to get out." That used to be normal in Florida...
...theory is that an unstable explosive was used that went off prematurely -- perhaps when the van was going over a speed bump -- and blew up the bombers along with their bomb. The blast seems to have occurred either on the ramp or at the bottom of it -- not ordinarily a spot where bombers would park, get out of the van and take an elevator up to the street. A foul odor in the crater could point to the presence of bodies in the wreckage, but it could have other causes as well...
...parties around the same table to generate an evidence-based meeting of the minds, and I'm sure that's what the President will demand." Then why, before the facts are known, has Clinton asked for such a whopping increase in Head Start funds -- and an as yet unspecified bump in Chapter 1 money as well? "Think of it as a promissory note," says Galston. "The President has made a commitment. The question now is how to redeem it in the best possible way." Galston is right, of course, and so is Clinton when he says, "A solid, comprehensive ((education...