Word: meres
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...Kennedy, the founding father who became chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and ambassador to Britain. By 1957, he had also assembled a $100 million fortune, some of it in ways that were not entirely wholesome, including bootlegging during Prohibition. But his ambitions went much further than mere wealth. At his 25th Harvard reunion, he described his occupation as "public affairs," and to that end he single-mindedly directed the destiny of his four sons...
...reform plan in secret sessions. At a medical center in Cooperstown, Clinton voiced her impatience with incremental health-care reform, "the school of smaller steps" she and her husband have been forced to rely on ever since; the patient's bill of rights, though she supports it, is a mere "diversion" from the real problems: greedy drug companies, miserly managed-care combines, 43 million uninsured Americans. But at the same forum she had the nerve to say that when she approaches health issues, "I'm only a patient. I'm just a lay person...
...something more active, more comprehending than mere moderation is required. In the first place, the heart is not a BMW, not a motor that achieves optimal performance if given the right octane and motor oil. The heart is a mystic as well as a machine. It is irrational and unpredictable...
...rest of the summer off," says TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl, after Thursday?s CPI number confirmed the good news: Inflation is definitely back in the grave. The overall Consumer Price Index was unchanged last month, and the core rate ? which excluded volatile energy prices ?- increased a mere 0.1 percent. Both numbers came in under expectations, yet another assurance that the Fed has absolutely no need to throttle back on the money supply when it meets in August. "In fact, it doesn?t even need to meet," jokes Baumohl. "They don?t even have to talk on the phone...
...next e-commerce wave is hurtling down on the Web. It's called the e-market; it's coming soon to an industrial-era sector near you, and Ma may turn out to be its avatar. "Moses' intellect operates on a plane well above mere mortals'," says Joel Friedman, a managing partner at Andersen Consulting, which last month agreed to develop and sell e-market software and services with BizBots. "And we think he might have built a better mousetrap...