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...grain of the firewood, lazily choosing the straight grains first, the ones without knots or ropy torques that will clutch the blade and hold it, stuck like Excalibur. Splitting wood is a crude, rustic version of diamond cutting. Read the grain right, strike it there, and the wood bifurcates (chunk!) with algebraic cleanness...
Judging from the cascade of credit-card offers in your mailbox, you would think there is plenty of competition in the industry. Banks have been leaping over one another to grab more of what industry types call "wallet share"--a bigger chunk of the 80% of U.S. households that already carry plastic. So banks pick fights with other banks. Special, predatory offers abound--2.87 billion mailings in 1999 alone. "Competition doesn't get any better than this," says David Robertson, president of the Nilson Report, a credit-card-industry newsletter...
...middle-income families with day care, college expenses or elderly parents to care for. Bush tries to spread the savings around to everybody who pays taxes. And that inevitably favors the rich. Bush seems to believe his plan is fair. But it's worth noting that the chunk of the surplus he would hand over to wealthy Americans could have been used to deliver, for example, a more generous Medicare plan for middle-class seniors, who would get a 50% subsidy for premiums under Gore's plan and only a 25% subsidy under Bush's. Does that mean that Bush...
...middle-income families with day care and college expenses or elderly parents to care for. Bush tries to spread the savings around to everybody who pays taxes. And that inevitably favors the rich. Bush seems to believe his plan is fair. But it's worth noting that the chunk of the surplus he would hand over to wealthy Americans could have been used to deliver, for example, a more generous Medicare plan for middle-class seniors, who would get a 50% subsidy for premiums under Gore's plan and only a 25% subsidy under Bush's. Does that mean that...
...Coop posted sales of $40 million, a 3.3 percent increase over last year. Coop membership increased 22.6 percent, the largest chunk of which came from students...