Word: letting
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...indication, voters don't think it really exists either. But that has not prevented politicians on both sides from trying to woo them with proposals that Washington can't pay for. Republicans fanned out during their August recess to try to rally public support for their tax cuts--Please, let us give you more money!--but the polls showed a public unmoved. Voters said they would rather use the money, if it exists, to pay down the $5.6 trillion national debt. "People are genuinely fiscally conservative in this country," says Stephen Moore, an irrepressible supply-sider from the Cato Institute...
...Let's see. A 50-channel cable universe cuts its viewership in half? Have fun in a 500-channel medium. Or 5,000. Or 5 million. "You'll be competing for people's attention whether you're a radio website, a TV site or my grandmother's birthday-party site," says Todd Wagner, CEO of Broadcast.com the online video site that Yahoo snapped up last summer for $5.7 billion...
...remains of Hurricane Floyd hit Boston early this morning, bringing torrential downpours and gusts of up to 70 m.p.h. to the region. Across New England yesterday, schools let out early and residents prepared for possible flooding, especially in urban areas. Air transportation has come to a virtual standstill, with most flights into and out of Logan airport cancelled...
...Let us speculate, for a moment, what Harvard would look like in the aftermath of nuclear war. The Yard, the Business School, the Law School, maybe even the Quad (depending on the strength of the warhead in question), would lie a smoldering heap of lifeless ruins. Four hundred years of history instantly incinerated. Nothing but a pile of dust...
...Nixon one more time Thursday and invoked executive privilege, waving away congressional subpoenas for documents and witnesses from the likes of Vince Foster sleuth Dan Burton (R-Ind.), chairman of the House Government Reform Committee. "The president has a moral obligation to the American people to explain why he let terrorists out of prison," Burton said Thursday...