Word: clearers
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...tech market is in a curious sort of psychological Catch-22 these days: Investors are waiting for things to calm down, and it's making them very nervous. Most forecasters look ahead to November or December as a time of some calm and clarity. The Fed will have a clearer picture of the economic soft-landing/slowdown. The nation will have a new president-elect unburdened by campaign-specific rhetoric. And this blasted earnings season will be over...
With each week that passes, it becomes clearer that neither George W. Bush nor Al Gore is a satisfactory candidate for President of the United States...
...exhibit only shows the self-portrait van Gogh sent to Gauguin, which portrays him as a thinking man, deeply committed to art, in vibrant, unrealistic colors suggesting a remove from reality. If the curators had borrowed van Gogh's portraits of Gauguin and Bernard from Amsterdam, a much clearer reflection of van Gogh's insecurities and hopes might have emerged...
...invited hundreds of insurance companies to bid on its new program providing drug coverage for low- and moderate-income people age 62 and older, but only one insurer responded--and it was disqualified because it was not licensed to do business in the state. Nevada reworked its plan, making clearer what it expected of the companies, and got five proposals in time for a second deadline, in August. The state is reviewing the proposals...
...Soviet habits of secrecy and confusion during the first days of the disaster. They made no announcement for two days, then issued a bland statement that there had been a "technical fault" and the boat was on the sea bottom. After the seriousness of the accident became clearer, Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev declared that there was "incontrovertible evidence" that the sub had collided with another vessel. In past years Soviet and U.S. vessels have had near collisions while spying on each other, but the Pentagon firmly rejected any suggestion that U.S. submarines were involved. Later, Russian officials dropped the collision...