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Gore would slowly inherit the mantle of President Clinton's anointed successor. Bush, after surprising then-incumbent Texas. Gov. Ann Richards in 1994, would slowly figure into Republican plans to recapture the White House...
...Gore or Bush, the markets will calm down quickly. Whoever wins will inherit the same right-down-the middle Congress; the next president will find it exceedingly difficult to govern, and in the markets' estimation that's okeydoke. Which is why a President-elect Gore, being the more combative candidate, would likely get his own round of market plaudits - gridlock means guaranteed use of the surplus for debt repayment, and nothing about Washington fills the markets' sails like a really good Plan B - a priority additionally endorsed by the Almighty Greenspan...
...anyone say slowdown? There have been plenty of worries about the effects of interest-rate hikes on the U.S. economy in the past few months, but when he takes the oath of office next Jan. 20, the next President, whether it's Al Gore or George W. Bush, will inherit the sunniest economic prospects to greet any new Chief Executive since Lyndon Johnson in 1963. Yes, it looks like the output of goods and services will be increasing more slowly. But the growth rate will slip only from one that clearly was too fast to last to a pace that...
...residents of Scuffletown, as described by Rhoda Strong, its most famous daughter and this novel's indomitable narrator, "are the very type He listed among those preferred to inherit the earth." Like Rhoda, most who live in this swampy 19th century North Carolina settlement are descendants of the region's native Indians and pawns to both armies during the waning days of the Civil War. With fluid writing, nuanced characters and a suspenseful pace, Humphreys blends historical romance with a meditation on the ambiguities of race and morality...
Brad Eiffert owns a lumberyard in Columbia, Mo. He pays $36,000 a year for a life-insurance policy just so his children can inherit the yard unencumbered and not have to borrow from savings--or even sell the business--just to pay the estate...