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...became a daily struggle, but my battle had just begun. In high school, I was late to first period, even the rallies I helped run. Friends would complain about delayed dinners, movie dates, and missed breakfasts. I would experience remorse on each occasion, but its effects would fade by the next day as I hit the snooze button or lost track of time. Although I knew it was wrong to keep people waiting and take up their time, I thought that others found the flaw endearing rather than annoying. Often, I would compensate by buying everyone bagels—carbs...
...between 1994 and 2010, there are important differences. The current wave of voter discontent started in August 2009, 15 months before the election; in 1994, it began just three months before Election Day. Only time will tell if the health-reform-inspired wave of hostility to the Democrats will fade by November or if the Republicans will manage to keep the issue alive. For Democrats, the challenge now is to turn the nation's attention back to other concerns, like jobs. That points to another big difference between 1994 and 2010: in 1994 the unemployment rate was just under...
...place as historic and stuck in its ways like Harvard, traditions don’t often fade in and out of existence, never mind re-emerge after a more than sixty-year absence...
Debate over the law’s cost, however, has yet to fade, despite the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office’s conclusion that it is fiscally responsible. In advancing their allegation that Democrats will add to the deficit, Republicans insist that the bill will cost Americans far more than the CBO report suggests. This claim is largely unfounded; in fact, the CBO regularly errs toward conservative estimates about cost savings because it fails to account for savings from intangible factors, such as better technology and systemic improvement. Considering these additional components, Harvard economist David Cutler estimates that...
...once Dougherty joined Essex’s lab, the foreignness of the African country began to fade...