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When Deborah Owen, 53, a partner in a North Hollywood, Calif., accounting firm, took a vacation last August, her days were long. She was exhausted each evening. There were constant deadlines to meet. The work was messy. Oh, and by the way, she can't wait to do it all again...
...most important impact may be the one nearest the hearts of many of Bush's core voters: the ability to clear the President's nominees through the Judiciary Committee. Judge Priscilla Owen, a Bush pick for the federal circuit court, probably would have won confirmation by the full Senate had the vote ever come to the floor; majority leader Tom Daschle made sure it never did. "For a lot of our base voters, this is the biggest issue out there," says an outside adviser to Bush's political team. "If we don't deliver, they won't work as hard...
...illustrate, Heaney read a few different poets’ thoughts on composition, including William Butler Yeats, William Wordsworth, T.S. Eliot, Wilfred Owen and Elizabeth Bishop...
...rate - the euro zone's highest - is historically low. The studies showing huge price increases have focused on high-visibility goods like food, which have often increased dramatically, but ignored big-ticket items like cars and houses, which haven't. In fact, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein analyst David Owen says that despite the price hikes, the report's authors are "even more optimistic" about euro-zone inflation, since they expect prices to begin converging and falling next year. Until then, don't spend all your euros in one place...
...plucking. Free hands might also be useful for sex, although not in the way you might think. The best male upright walkers could bring back food for the females of their species, increasing their chances of winning a mate and passing on their genes--or so suggests C. Owen Lovejoy of Ohio's Kent State University, the leading proponent of this theory...