Word: jimming
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Fans already sense the malaise. "You've got to cut back all around," says Jim Fryer, a marketing consultant who was also relishing that Phillies win over the Dodgers. Fryer, 52, has one child in graduate school and another in college. "You've got to cut corners. With two tuitions, you have to evaluate everything." At the game, almost 46,000 fans, a full house, create a frenzied sea of Phillie red. The team should enjoy this post-season windfall while they have it. Come next spring, customers like Fryer may refuse to play ball...
...with Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, two quasi-government corporations. Despite several attempts by legislators to call attention to the impending crisis, others preached the soundness of these institutions. This is not a failure of the free-market system; it is the failure of big government and its manipulations. Jim Vance, Birmingham...
...most potent weapon in Ventura's triumph was his up-the-Establishment attitude, his platform quotations from such political thinkers as Jerry Garcia and Jim Morrison, his TV commercial showing him as an Action Figure doll doing battle with the Evil Special Interest Man. ("I don't want your stupid money," growls the Ventura doll.) Some may call it the Revenge of the Couch Potatoes, but Ventura's campaign galvanized younger Minnesotans. They swarmed to the polls to register and vote on Election Day--Minnesota law allows same-day registration--in such numbers that some polling places...
...call attention to the impending crisis, lawmakers like Senator Christopher Dodd - the No. 1 recipient of campaign contributions from Fannie and Freddie - preached the soundness of these institutions. This is not a failure of the free-market system; it is the failure of big government and its manipulations. Jim Vance, BIRMINGHAM...
...Either way, Florida Republican Party Chairman Jim Greer felt compelled to convene a meeting of the party's state leadership in Tallahassee earlier this month to regroup. Sources say it yielded few solutions. A big GOP headache is Florida's ultra-fluid demographics. The state has one of the nation's largest hoards of independent voters, almost one-fifth of the electorate, EMS, and the centrist trend is creeping into once solid GOP bastions like Sarasota. Crossover Republicans like Geyer are news; but Sarasota Democrats can be just as averse to straight-ticket life. David Grain, 46, an African-American...