Word: deja
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heart of his fiscal crusade is his flat tax, a plan derided as "deja voodoo" by economists who blame Reagan's supply-side tax cuts for the explosion of the national debt. He has captured perfectly the fury Americans feel for a system they think treats them like suckers while the rich enjoy a secret tax code written just for them--notwithstanding that his flat tax could favor the rich even more effectively. But his appeal is not only to apparent fairness and simplicity, the allure of a tax return no bigger than a postcard. The plan is also...
...like last year. So does that mean that this year will be hike last year... yikes! But this is not the case. On closer inspection, it's clear that last night's loss was different from those of last year, which gives Harvard fans no reason to worry about deja...
...less fraught Jeffrey, Barcelona with a faster pulse--or maybe Friends on PBS. Grover (Josh Hamilton) doesn't want his girlfriend Jane (Olivia d'Abo) to go study in Prague--she'll "come back a bug." Max (Chris Eigeman), a guy so jaded that every new experience is deja vu, falls in with cheeky Kate (Cara Buono). Chet (Eric Stoltz) is a professional student, and Otis (the delightfully morose Carlos Jacott) apparently plans to make a career of losing. They all share an avocation: chatting. The young men, especially, are "media slaves," infomaniacs. Who would win, Freddy or Jason? Does...
Whatever the cause, Harvard must learn from this coup de force and improve its conditioning and offensive production in a half-court set, in order to avoid any deja vu in the future...
...college-applicant's daydream? An ill-timed practical joke? An exercise in deja vu? No, actually it's a true story, brought to you by the Educational Testing Service (ETS) and the College Board. On Sunday October 22, (a testing day for observant Jews and Jehovah's Witnesses) the test originally given Sunday April 2 was repeated in its entirety. Approximately 100 of the 2500 to 3000 students taking the test (between three and four percent) were seeing the three-hour test for the second time...