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...theory, at least, the consumer should be the one who benefits from competition, but in fact, the entire system benefits," says Giuseppe Tesauro, president of the Authority and the man behind its newfound rigor. "Competition is democracy in economic relations. The very companies that do things to block competition end up hurting themselves...
...presses Bush to delve into the fine print of his own proposals--for instance, how he plans to pay the estimated $1 trillion it will cost to reshape Social Security into a system that will let Americans invest part of their premiums. Gore's people believe Bush has the rigor and tight message to get through the first two answers but that his riff will begin to sound thin in the back-and-forth. Here too they hope to get to what they see as the point of their endeavor: raising doubts about whether Bush has the weight...
...when he presses Bush to delve into the fine print of his own proposals - like how he plans to pay the estimated $1 trillion it will cost to reshape Social Security into a system where Americans can invest part of their premiums. Gore's team believes Bush has the rigor and tight message to get through the first two answers, but that his riff will begin to sound thin in the back and forth. Here too they hope to get to what they see as the greatest point of their endeavor: raising doubts about whether Bush has the weight...
Before applying to colleges, homeschoolers often enroll in a course at a local college or in a summer program at a competitive university to show that they can handle both the academic rigor and the social distractions of college life. Before their three college-bound, homeschooled children began making applications, the Heywood family of Durham, N.C., sent each child to a summer program at a highly ranked school: Oxford University in England or Williams or Amherst college in Massachusetts. "We chose to educate our kids at home because we weren't happy with what the local schools had to offer...
...tries to combine the kind of subjective depth of confessional poetry with a kind of intellectual rigor which we associate with a less personal poetry," he said...