Word: chips
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...upside is that such a tax cut goes to the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder - even those who don't make enough to pay income taxes chip in a slice of their wages for those entitlements. Those are the people who missed the boom and are getting hurt most by the bust - and, some economists say, they're the people most likely to spend the money and keep the economy above water until businesses start making capital investments again...
...Chip, having lost his college teaching job for sleeping with one of his students, has found his way to free-market Lithuania, where he is helping a world-weary ex-politician fleece investors over the Internet. His prosperous brother Gary is drinking hard to reconcile himself to a manipulative wife and three sons who are drifting from his affections. Their sister Denise, a celebrity chef, makes reckless thrusts into other people's marriages. As anyone can tell you, "Christmas with the family" is a goal that has trouble written all over it. Trouble ensues...
...Fretilin believes this is its hour. But the move to democracy has seen a flowering of political rivals. Only a handful of the 16 political parties that contested this election existed before Indonesia invaded in 1975; many are just a year old. And some, like Partido Democratico, may yet chip away at Fretilin's vote. P.D. draws much of its support from young East Timorese attracted to a new generation of leaders like party president Fernando de Araujo, who was jailed for student activism in the 1990s. De Araujo says democracy in East Timor needs more than one strong party...
Harvard had many other chances to score among its 19 shots and nine penalty corners, coming close to scoring again and again on a goal called back, a reverse chip that almost tied the game, and several drives that passed just wide with and without goalies in goal...
...CHIP OFF THE OLD BLOCK The Jumbo Music Block ($60, for ages 1 and up) is designed to be Baby's first gadget. Made by Neurosmith, which specializes in tech for tykes, it's a plush cube 14 in. on a side--that's about waist high on a toddler--and covered with bright, colorful touch-sensitive shapes, each of which hides a secret pocket. It's designed to teach music and motor skills: touch a shape, and it plays a maddeningly perky tune...