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...late-summer pork grab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Surplus Dividend: An Idea Whose Time Hasn't Come | 2/1/2001 | See Source »

...Would it? The most obvious problem with any plan involving money "left over" is that Congress, by the time it gets through a year of legislation and the annual late-summer pork grab, hardly ever leaves any money left over (unless putting the current year's spending on next year's books, one of the boondoggles of the post-spending-caps era, counts as saving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Surplus Dividend: An Idea Whose Time Hasn't Come | 2/1/2001 | See Source »

Because many seniors suffer from poor balance (whether from neurological deficits or from the inner-ear problems that increase naturally with aging), it also helps to install grab bars and handrails in bathrooms and along hallways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Fall Insurance | 1/29/2001 | See Source »

...Providence came in here figuring the only way to slow us down was to clutch and grab," Harvard Coach Katey Stone said. "It's not the kind of women's hockey we want to play it looked like it was a men's hockey game with all that physical contact...

Author: By Nicolas O. Jimenez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Botterill, W. Hockey Rallies Late to Beat Friars, Huskies | 1/17/2001 | See Source »

...result is an "organization" so loosely knit that an FBI agent says finding members is "like trying to grab Jell-O." Lance Robertson, a veteran environment reporter for the Eugene (Ore.) Register-Guard newspaper, says he has never been able to track down anyone he knew to be a member. Even a self-proclaimed ELF spokesman in Portland says he merely passes on anonymous messages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When ELF Comes Calling | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

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