Word: bunked
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...role of the sentient market. Adherents of Adam Smith tend to tout the unfettered market as the means to environmental salvation, believing that eventually the price of a good reflects its true costs. Environmentalists scoff at this logic for a multitude of reasons: Some believe that economics is bunk since it's largely based on (what to them appears) untenable assumptions, others criticize free market solutions because of the incredible difficulty in valuing the environment. Still, most environmentalists believe that political will and the action of individuals is necessary to solve our environmental problems, in direct contrasts to economists...
...understand how infinitesimally narrow the digital divide can be, you need only enter the Emergency Housing Consortium's homeless shelter in San Jose, Calif., on a school night. Walk past the guard at the reception desk, down past the rows of slightly musty bunk beds, past the red-eyed guys slumped in front of a tiny TV screen filled with colored snow. Just as your heart starts to sag with despair for the human condition, though, stop and take a peek through the locked door on the right. The contrast couldn't be starker. You see a brilliant white computer...
...Woodmen of the World are offering up their youth camping compound to whichever 140 reporters are looking to sleep in nostalgic bunk beds in the woods 25 miles outside of town. An RV resort still has open parking spots. And a local fraternity unfurled a banner offering up its house to stranded journalists. Nearby, another sign took the high road: "As a retired public school teacher, I would not even consider asking the $150 a night that Pi Kappa Pi has, but a reasonable amount would have to be considered." Many of these insta-brokers have yet to seal...
...would not get involved in the European war. Nixon told campaign audiences in 1968 that he had a secret plan for getting out of Vietnam. George Bush Senior went across the American landscape shouting "READ MY LIPS, NO NEW 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...
...will be this weekend, by Senator Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, who plays Al Gore. Jim Lehrer is played by media adviser Stuart Stevens, who has sharpened his skills by watching tapes of the PBS news anchor. The governor will practice in his "gym," a freestanding dwelling with bunk beds, exercise equipment and small kitchen. The room is so small, aides will sit on the floor. The podium will be exactly 48 inches, to match the one being used at the three debates, and tonight's practice will be held at 9 p.m. eastern to simulate the actual time next...