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...President Bush would tell failing schools that enough is enough: If you can't do the job, we'll give your federal dollars to parents to help them send their kids to a better school. A President Gore would keep trying: bring in a team of specialists, pump money into reform, and if all else fails, shut the place down and start over with a new principal and new teachers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush and Gore: Who's The Education President? | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

...President Bush would tell failing schools that enough is enough: If you can't do the job, we'll give your federal dollars to parents to help them send their kids to a better school. A President Gore would keep trying: bring in a team of specialists, pump money into reform, and if all else fails, shut the place down and start over with a new principal and new teachers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's the Education President? | 10/29/2000 | See Source »

...Asked early in the election which single program would distinguish him from any other candidate, Gore cited his $50 billion "universal preschool" proposal, which would extend the Georgia model to the nation. It's the single costliest - and boldest - piece of his education agenda. Gore would also pump an extra $10 billion over 10 years into Head Start, the existing federal preschool program for poor children, which would continue to provide them with both educational enrichment and social services like meals and health care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Learning More, Earlier | 10/29/2000 | See Source »

...Higher oil prices mean higher energy costs, which mean higher manufacturing, shipping, and transportation costs - which could mean inflation. Higher oil prices also mean higher prices at the pump, which tends to act like a consumption tax on consumers (this is where Home Depot fits in, which could mean stagnation. And in Europe, higher oil prices have about twice the dampening effect - and that means lower sales for U.S. companies. Stagnation again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gulf War Ghosts Make Things Spooky on Wall St. | 10/12/2000 | See Source »

...fraudster, is that people act on the hype they see online. Large banks like Chase Manhattan pay millions of dollars a year in premiums to insure against a rogue trader like Leeson. Your best protection against a rogue Internet hypster is just not to listen. Most pump-and-dump schemes involve micro-cap stocks. That's your first tip-off. Often they hype them as likely to double or better in weeks. If you have questions, the SEC has a brochure, "Pump&Dump.con," with tips for avoiding scams. It's available at www.sec.gov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crimes And Misdeminors | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

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