Word: fourths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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GEORGE W. BUSH Mixes Slovenia and Slovakia in fourth foreign-land gaffe. Georgia borders...Albania? Alabama...
...fourth draft of a note to the plumber about replacing an old cast-iron wastewater line with polyvinyl-chloride pipe. After a fairly straightforward preamble, it veers off into a six-page symbolist idyll about a lake and a passenger-less rowboat "drifting away in errant eddies like a strange and mute child." It's really quite beautiful...
...problem stems from Hemingway's apparent uncertainty about where he wanted his story to go. Early on, some Mau Mau rebels who have escaped from jail pose a potential threat to the Hemingway encampment, but they abruptly vanish from the narrative. Another plot line involves Hemingway's fourth wife, Mary, and her fierce determination to shoot a particular lion before Christmas Day. "He's my lion," she says, sounding uncomfortably like a contestant in a Bad Hemingway writing contest, "and I love him and respect him and I have to kill him." She does so about halfway through the book...
Nobody foresees a continuation of the phenomenal 1998 rise in gross domestic product--a sizzling 6% annual rate in the fourth quarter, 3.9% for the year. But Cohen, true to her reputation as Wall Street's leading optimist, thinks the U.S. is in a "virtuous cycle" that will keep spinning, if a bit more slowly. The U.S., she notes, has created a stunning 15.5 million jobs since the end of 1993, even after subtracting job losses due to corporate downsizing. And two-thirds of these jobs pay more than the median wage for all U.S. jobs. By no coincidence, average...
WHAT HE SAID THEN In his first and second campaigns, he promised to serve just three terms. By his third (and fourth), he had changed his mind...