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...cuts? The broccoli. Choke ?em down, they?re good for the economy. Bush again touted his $1.3 trillion tax cut as well-timed fiscal stimulus for a U.S. economy mired in a slowdown. (A slowdown "that started last year," as Bush hastens to remind us.) Repealing it - even, presumably, the parts that won?t kick in until 2004 and beyond - "would be an anchor on our economy, and I assure you I won?t allow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bush Fall Agenda: The Coming Washington Food Fight | 8/29/2001 | See Source »

Passport has Microsoft's competitors worried that Gates & Co. want to use it to collect a fee on virtually every online consumer transaction. AOL has charged that Passport is Microsoft's attempt to gain a "choke point" on e-commerce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming: The E-Wallet Wars | 8/6/2001 | See Source »

...great period of Atlantic concluded in the mid-?60s, after Charles and Darin and Leiber and Stoller left the label. I acknowledge that later ?60s Atlantic music can get to me: I still do choke up at the church-organ screaming solemnity of "When a Man Loves a Woman." I have a sneaking fondness for early BeeGees, and not only sneaking: that first album has a half-dozen Beatles-worthy tunes on it, and "To Love Somebody" has stood the test of time as a magnificent Australo-American R&B wailer. But the late ?60s can?t compete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ahmet?s Atlantic: Baby, That Is Rock and Roll | 8/3/2001 | See Source »

...Michael Haulin, a Cambridge-area business owner, reports that John Hose attempted to steal a can of sardines. When confronted, Hose allegedly tried to choke Haulin...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Police Log | 8/3/2001 | See Source »

...outwardly casual yet tense, when I'll mention, out of the blue, that I once drank too much and that it taught me some things I'd like to share with her. She'll lift her lovely, clear eyes and ask me, "What things?" At which point, I'll choke and wish I hadn't started this. Do I owe her a full confession, complete with mugshots, or just an outline? Perhaps I'll just say this: "Don't drink, you hear? I don't want you to drink." My hope is that she'll smile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Do You Tell The Kids? | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

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