Word: ship
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moderates decided to spare neophyte Speaker Dennis Hastert the embarrassment. In exchange for a hastily scrawled amendment tying the later years of a 10-year, $792 billion tax cut to promised reductions in the national debt, the "Hell no" folks said "What the heck" and climbed aboard a GOP ship that, says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan, won?t sail very far anyway. "If Clinton got this as the final bill, he?d veto it," he says. "This is merely an opening gambit for the most ravenous tax-cutters in the party ?- Bill Archer & Co. in the House...
...company that didn't show, Apple. Daewoo Telecom's Future Power, for example, unveiled an all-in-one Windows PC called the E-Power that comes in five flavors, er, colors--amethyst, ruby, topaz, emerald and sapphire. Bad news for Steve Jobs: E-Power will ship at about two-thirds the price of the iMac...
...Harborwalk is a blue painted line that will take you from the Old State House to museums and landmarks along the Boston waterfront including the Children's Museum, the New England Aquarium (T: Aquarium, on the Blue Line) and the Boston Tea Party Ship...
...intrepid, a two-hour ride on Amtrakfrom the South station brings you to Mystic, Conn.($50 round trip), home of Mystic Seaport. TheSeaport is an outdoor maritime museum, home to thelast whaling ship in existence, the Morgan...
Which doesn't mean I really understand the politics. Trying to grasp what I read in the papers each morning is a bit like trying to solve a Rubik's cube in the dark on a ship sinking in the ocean in the middle of a storm. Trying to sort out the betrayals and the counter-betrayals and the deepseated animosities between the two groups is a task I believe to be beyond anyone lacking advanced degrees in theology, political science, sociology and counter-terrorism. In fact, I have yet to meet anyone--native or otherwise--who claims to understand...