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...worry about canceling the papers or stopping the mail. He did have to resuscitate his education plan, persuade lawmakers to vote for his industry-friendly energy proposals and get his preferred version of HMO reform through the House. And so a President not known for working overtime managed to grind out a string of victories. The House easily passed Bush's energy package, which includes the Alaska drilling provision the pundits had declared dead. His education plan moved toward resolution; the Senate even passed his $5.5 billion emergency farm-aid bill after Democrats dropped demands for more money...
...does, it won?t stay long, not without anything resembling profits or even incipient demand pushing up on the charts. Look for some bumps - as the last of the earnings trickle out, Wall Street?s 9-to-5ers gotta trade on something - and a lot of grind...
...president of the senior class. They won the American Legion's "I Speak for Democracy" contest, or, like Bill Clinton, shined in Boy's Nation and posed in the Rose Garden. Then - except maybe in the case of Jesse Ventura - there ensued nothing more colorful or original than the grind through law school and after that - ambition, elections, shoeshines, smiles...
...showed the degree of flexibility on view at Bonn during talks last November, President Bush might not have found it as easy to trash the treaty on taking office. The Clinton administration was never happy with the terms of Kyoto, but it kept its negotiators at the table to grind away at the original treaty. President Bush gambled that withdrawing from the negotiations - that is, removing the indispensable polluter - would force the international community back to the drawing board to seek an agreement more favorable to the U.S.'s gas-guzzling economy. But summary withdrawal from a decade-old process...
...from site to site and from one URL (uniform resource locator, or Web address) to another, indexing the contents of pages as they go. For most pages, crawlers do a fine, if slow, job. But when they bump into sites where information is held inside a database, they grind to a halt...