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...after the winter peak-demand period, perhaps to less than $30 per bbl. by spring and even into the low-$20 range by the end of 2001. Says Yergin, one of the country's foremost experts on the energy supply: "We should see the fundamentals of supply and demand reassert themselves over the tension that has been driving the market for much of this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are We Over A Barrel? | 12/18/2000 | See Source »

Hence the search for remedies: the Florida legislature threatening to reassert its prerogative to make law, either by reaffirming the original language of the election law that the court grossly misconstrued, or by simply appointing their own presidential electors; Congress contemplating exercising its own authority to recognize electors, should the Florida delegation turn out to have been manufactured by a court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2000: Our Imperial Judiciary | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

...solve the problem. For much of the past seven years, Israeli and Palestinian negotiators have been creeping close to agreement on many issues, but not this one. When Israeli right-winger Ariel Sharon visited the site two weeks ago in a bid to boost his political support and reassert Israeli rights to the land, Arabs saw it as an act of such political arrogance that it could only trigger an outburst. In what Arabs call the "Aqsa intifadeh," the uprising of al-Aqsa Mosque on the Mount, at least 80 people have been killed and nearly 2,000 injured, mostly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bloody Mountain | 10/16/2000 | See Source »

Similarly, we saw a related phenomenon that could be called the Williamsburging of America. As Nancy Gibbs writes, small towns are rummaging back into their history to reassert their unique identity and attract tourists. Hannibal, Mo., has become a re-created Mark Twain birthplace. In Nauvoo, Ill., Mormons whose families lived there more than a century ago are returning to reconstruct their old temple. And the hotel owner in Kimmswick told us of the town's plan to re-enact the Civil War battle even though, he conceded, it was "just a skirmish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rolling Down the River | 7/10/2000 | See Source »

...Radcliffe Institute also tried to reassert itself in the Cronkhite Graduate Center, a large building owned by the Institute...

Author: By Joyce K.mcintyre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Struggling for Space: University Looks To Expand | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

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