Word: marker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Congressional Democrats are worried that the Administration has done more than that. Even before laying down his opening marker, the President has moved significantly on Medicare, after successfully lambasting the Republicans as the enemies of old people in the last election. Clinton is also sounding flexible about Republican demands for a broader cut in the capital-gains tax. Is the Administration negotiating with itself, nervous Democrats wonder? What is it getting in return for the $14 billion it has offered to give up on Medicare? And what is the value of a deal if it leaves the President's party...
...grader. The true master of a generality is the man who can write a 10-page essay, which means nothing at all to him, and have it mean a great deal to anyone who reads it. The generality writer banks on the knowledge possessed by the grader, hoping the marker will read things into his essay...
...market chugs ever higher. The average blue-chip stock has risen a stunning 29% annually in the past two years, nearly triple the historical 10.5% benchmark, making the U.S. the best-performing major market on the globe in that period. The Dow Jones industrial average blew past the 6300 marker last week, more than double its level less than five years ago. America is on a roll, and with Wall Street euphoric over the election results, it seems nothing can go wrong. U.S.A. all the way! Besides, giant U.S. companies such as Coca-Cola, Gillette and Philip Morris are doing...
...story of the time--a strange, defining piece of cold war Kabuki--has remained a mystery intact. The matter of Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers, and which of them was telling the truth, became a litmus test for several generations, a marker not only of political sympathies but also of intellectual class and sensibility. Hiss and Chambers were the cold war's Mozart and Salieri, and their mysteries were multilayered. If you went below the murk of espionage and infiltration and double lives--a subject fascinating in itself--you penetrated to the deeper strangeness of the two men's psychologies...
...Martin chaired a committee on mapping the human brain at the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He also collaborated in discovering the genetic marker for Huntington's disease, making early diagnosis possible...