Word: chump
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Much has been made of the enormous charity funds raised after the attacks. Donations to those groups do funnel thousands of dollars to the victims' families--in particular, the families of fire fighters and police officers. But overall, the nearly $2 billion in charity money is chump change compared with the cash that will flow out of government coffers. There is no limit to the federal fund, but the tab is likely to be triple the size of the charity pot. And while charity funds are doled out to a vast pool of people, including businesses hurt by the attacks...
...Much has been made of the enormous charity funds raised after the attacks. Donations to those groups do funnel thousands of dollars to the victims' families - in particular, the families of fire fighters and police officers. But overall, the nearly $2 billion in charity money is chump change compared with the cash that will flow out of government coffers. There is no limit to the federal fund, but the tab is likely to be triple the size of the charity pot. And while charity funds are doled out to a vast pool of people, including businesses hurt by the attacks...
...download. Symptoms: icon blemishes, commonly found in the bottom right corner of the screen; a geologically protracted start-up delay; and the PC deathknell, “Fatal error has occurred. You will lose any unsaved information because you just had to download that pirated Backgammon software. Nice going, chump...
...nine years. Technically, she's almost 15." Readers have not seemed to mind Junie B.'s slow progress: 5 million copies have been sold since 1992. Park, 54, who had an "Ozzie and Harriet childhood" in New Jersey, has written 13 other children's books, including Operation: Dump the Chump and Skinnybones. TIME recently spoke with the author, who lives in Scottsdale, Ariz., about Junie B.'s popularity...
...golden opportunity to tie the series up and make sure it would return to Seattle. It was a game that the Mariners could and should have won, if for no other reason than because they were facing the only guy who’s a bigger chump than Sele in the postseason—Roger Clemens...