Word: half
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...upstate New York, it's still the economy, stupid. Since 1960 the city of Utica, for example, has lost half its population--down to 64,000 from 125,000--and much of the region has scarcely benefited from the boom of the 1990s, suggesting that the same lunch-pail issues that delivered New York to Bill in 1992 could help deliver it to Hillary in 2000. Her signature concerns--economic fairness and child welfare, education reform and affordable health care--won't carry the largely Republican upstate against Giuliani, but they could keep it close enough...
...speaks without a text, makes his own calls, never goes off the record. We stop for lunch, and he puts a $20 bill on the counter, and so do I--one of those postmodern-ethics moments when neither of us can accept the other's hospitality. He gives me half of his deep-dish pizza, having made the better choice. Sure, he's pleased with himself. But unlike a lot of smug pols, at least he has some reason...
...they got here and at what lies ahead, some crusaders realize they may have missed the chance of a lifetime. By making a balanced budget the Holy Grail, conservatives never got around to the conversation they really care about: What size budget should be balanced? One trillion? Two? Half a trillion? How much of the nation's wealth should remain in private hands, and how much controlled by the federal Treasury? Hardly anyone imagined the day would come when the brakes came off, the deficit vanished and it would be possible to balance the budget while spending even more...
...public's perception of these special forces has swung from adulation to cynicism--symbolizes the way Russia has lost its bearings, its hopes for the future and its ideals. An elite group like the Spetsnaz was held together by a belief in the system, as more than half a dozen soldiers interviewed by TIME recall. No longer. "I swore allegiance to Russia," says Alexei. "I don't identify the present regime with Russia." Many feel equally alienated from their corrupt commanders. A conversation with Sergei, a Spetsnaz noncommissioned officer, frequently drifts off into descriptions of how senior officers are stealing...
...friends gradually became scattered to all corners of the world by the immigration wave, induced by the fear and uncertainty of the impending change of sovereignty from Great Britain to China. Among the addresses I had scribbled on postcards and envelopes in those bygone letter-writing days were a half-dozen cities in England and Canada, plus Singapore and New Zealand, among others. Perhaps the one thing that kept us lazy kids writing to one another was the chance to add so many exotic stamps to our growing collections. Besides occasional short notes, we did not share too much...