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...quieter, lighter and smoother b) Was tested only on butter roads c) Comes with cute, ear-shaped axles d) Beats Firestone's new nitroglycerin tire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Mar. 12, 2001 | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...hear Bush describe his budget, you'd think Nelson and the others would all be jumping up and shouting "Hallelujah!" As Bush tells it, we can afford guns and butter, higher spending and lower taxes, missile defense and a prescription-drug benefit, Social Security forever. After a month that felt more like the ninth season of the Clinton Show than the first of Bush's, the new President's address last Tuesday had the air of a second Inauguration. In a real sense, it marked the beginning of his presidency, the moment when the new guy started filling his suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Selling the Tax Cut | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...bread product inhabited by the spirit of Mae West: "I'm big and round, I got a hole in the middle/And I'm lumpy and I'm bumpy and they call me pumpernickel/I'm good in the morning, I'm good at night/A little bit of butter and I taste just right/Come on and gobble me up, gobble me up/Gobble gobble gobble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Radical Aardvark | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...inch-thick steel would only be 1 in. thick on weekend nights and holidays. During weekday business hours, it would be one-third of an inch thick; and if one carried the steel outside one's "area," it would cost six times as much. Refrigerators would chill eggs and butter for only three or four hours before they "crashed," entailing a call to an 800 number. A pound of wheat would be a pound of wheat*--meaning that it would neither weigh a pound nor be composed of grain without the purchase of a 12-month contract. A hamburger would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recession For Dummies | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

...these, Bush came prepared. He took the microphone at 9:10 p.m. ET, opened with that bit of self-deprecation that is his political bread and butter, and surprised some more pundits by going right at his predecessor's jugular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bush Address: Birth of a Salesman? | 2/28/2001 | See Source »

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