Word: digitalizes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Bush. Which brings us back to this year's race. Although students are moving right on many issues, the President isn't necessarily benefiting. In 2000 Al Gore beat Bush among 18-to 29-year-olds by only 2 percentage points, but recent polls show Kerry with a double-digit lead among the young. (The race is a virtual tie overall.) Of course, very few conservative students will vote for Kerry, but most of the kids who attended the conference didn't seem eager to become field troops for the President either. As National Review editor Rich Lowry noted...
...Peru between 1985 and 1990, was primarily remembered for overseeing one of the worst governments in the Andean nation's modern history. In trying to pull the country out of the economic doldrums, he printed extra money, nationalized banks, and not surprisingly, ended up with four-digit inflation. Those memories are only eclipsed by the rampant terrorism at the hands of the Shining Path, which forced his government to put 75 percent of the country under a state of emergency...
...saying goodbye without any possibility of a further encounter would have most likely come off as impolite. He may have taken your number and really thought that he would call. Or he just knew that he could not say goodbye and leave it at that. Either way, while your digits were being entered into his phone, were you not flattered? That is what you should take away from this whole debacle: you should feel flattered and know that, even though this did not pan out, there will inevitably be more heart-racing, digit-exchanging moments in your future...
...dugout before the game, utility man and sometimes reliever Max Warren showed me several of the most common curveball grips. He said I had to apply pressure with my middle finger and spin the ball off that digit. He advised me, though, to borrow a ball and see what grip suited me best...
Americans have resigned themselves to an inexorable fate. With a sigh and a shrug, they pull the gas pump off its handle, swipe their credit card, and cringe as the price meter climbs so fast that the dollar digit seems stuck at eight. Frustrated at their bills, they might rant to their friends, or perhaps even call their congressman...