Word: hoover
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...bearish reckoning, full-year growth for 2003 may amount to little more than 2%. That could pose a problem not just for workers but also for President Bush as he gears up for the 2004 election. If things don't improve, he could be the first President since Herbert Hoover to record a drop in the number of working Americans during his whole term. --By Adam Zagorin
...reported to have jumped to 6.4%, up from 6.1% in May, bringing to 2 million the total job losses since Bush became President. The news could pose a problem for him in the 2004 election; if things don't improve, he could be the first President since Herbert Hoover in 1932 to record a drop in the number of working Americans during his whole term...
...farms. But the day's solemnity made room for celebration too, as Roosevelt answered cheers by shaking his hands over his head like a prizefighter. Later he wagged his top hat at marchers in the Inauguration parade, including four men pushing lawn mowers, a gibe at outgoing President Hoover's remark that if Democrats won, grass would grow in the streets. --By Margot Roosevelt New Deal
...make it to something at that time. 10 o’clock is a tad on the early side, too,” he explains…Melissa T. Epstein ’05 thinks Adams dining hall interhouse regulations are too strict…Gerald C. Hoover ’03 has changed toothpaste brands?...
When top officials at the FBI arrived for work last week, they had reason to feel even more anxious than usual. Beginning each day before dawn, FBI Director Robert Mueller and his top aides huddled on the seventh floor of the J. Edgar Hoover Building, reviewing overnight intelligence reports gathered from human and electronic sources around the world. Taken together, the reports suggested what intelligence officials had suspected for weeks: al-Qaeda operatives, in the words of a senior U.S. official, "are in the execution phase of some of their operations." The intelligence sources couldn't pinpoint the kind...