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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...April dip was for fools. Were you one of them? If so, you had plenty of company. For most of a decade, investors have enriched themselves by plowing money into the market every time it stumbled. Whatever the downward catalyst, from Yeltsin's coup to the Asian flu, prices routinely rebounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The NASDAQ: What A Drag! | 10/23/2000 | See Source »

...scandal that clung to the White House in the wake of the Lewinsky debacle, producers at NBC were uncertain that the nation would swallow Martin Sheen's squeaky-clean President Barlet. All sorts of polls have shown that the average American's faith in government has slid steadily downward since Watergate. Was it possible that a public so disillusioned with its leaders could accept the portrait of a politician with a magnetic personality, a benevolent heart, and a philosophy of being "for the people" who is neither a stooge nor a swindler...

Author: By Alixandra E. Smith, | Title: Barlet for President in 2000 | 10/19/2000 | See Source »

Members of the Harvard community reacted with shock and sadness at yesterday's downward turn of events...

Author: By Joyce K. Mcintyre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Violence Intensifies in Middle East | 10/13/2000 | See Source »

Conversely, Herbert Hoover was a gleamingly successful citizen right up until the fall of 1929, when his reputation followed the economy downward in a disastrous spiral. And so on. The presidency retains a mystique of transformation. The office is still a variation on the American theme of new beginnings. Americans might actually find it attractive if George W. Bush's only accomplishment by age 40 had been to quit drinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turning Doofus into Gold | 8/14/2000 | See Source »

Conversely, Herbert Hoover was a gleamingly successful citizen right up until the fall of 1929, when his reputation followed the economy downward in a disastrous spiral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Power of Presidential Transformation | 7/28/2000 | See Source »

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