Word: nice
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...nice while it lasted. But now down we go again...
...understand how this $700 billion bailout we have all agreed to is supposed to work. Do you? Does Tom Brokaw? Do Obama and McCain? I suspect that one of them does and the other doesn't. But I don't know. I can't help thinking it would be nice to have a President who understands it. That's the kind of leader we want: one who could get us back to business as usual...
...regular investors--long advised to buy stocks, diversify and stay patient--are taking the beating. Anna Weiss, 67, of Houston embodies the anxiety now taking hold across the country. "I saved for 30 years. I have saved and saved and saved so that I could afford some of the nice things that I never allowed myself when I was young," says the retired retail manager. "Now I find because of other people's stupidity that the money I have saved has shrunk...
...told by the very nice election-board workers that in-person early voters come in two varieties: the superinformed and the people Obama supporters pick up off the streets and throw into a van. You can tell the difference mainly by smell. The secretary who sits by the front door told me that I wouldn't see many old people, since they like to vote on Election Day so they can see their friends, get breakfast afterward and make a day of it. This made me think that we should hold elections for old people monthly, letting them vote...
...said Elizabeth C. Elrod ’11, who identified herself as a Republican. “There seemed to be a little bit more of answering the pertinent questions.” Students also said they enjoyed the discussion of unity. “It was nice to see civilized debate, Democrats and Republicans coming together on both sides,” said Phillip J. Morris ’12. “A lot of the themes were great, talking about some of the things that unite us rather than just focusing on strictly the issues that divide...