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Weeks before I arrived, my company laid off 400 people—half of its staff. My group shrunk from 15 to just four members. My roommate out here works—or shall I now say “worked”—for a seasoned, established startup (read: five years old, and still in business). He would wake up each morning not knowing if he would still have a job at the end of the day. For him, it was just a matter of going to work, closing deals and praying that whatever business he brought...
...much did he actually win? By the time the House GOP leadership drummed up the 240 votes to pass its energy bill after midnight Wednesday, the 1.5 million-acre swath of the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge Bush had earmarked for exploration had been shrunk by compromise to 2,000 acres - and backers had to stroke the labor unions (salivating over construction jobs in the tundra) to get that...
...sort of presidential crippling the "Third Way" and thus make it seem like at least some of the rampant legislative triangulation of his first term was his idea. Bush used to talk about "compassionate conservatism" while he was calling the shots - now that Jim Jeffords is gone, Bush has shrunk into just one Republican part of the third leg of the right-left-center negotiating triangle...
...then the sun will have shrunk to a white dwarf, giving little light and even less heat to whatever is left of Earth, and entered a long, lingering death that could last 100 trillion years--or a thousand times longer than the cosmos has existed to date. The same will happen to most other stars, although a few will end their lives as blazing supernovas. Finally, though, all that will be left in the cosmos will be black holes, the burnt-out cinders of stars and the dead husks of planets. The universe will be cold and black...
...term relationships with veteran pols became meaningless. Veteran staff members in the state capitals have had their power enhanced by guiding the rookies. In Maine, the number of bills has almost doubled in recent years, as rookies try to make a mark. But the number of laws passed has shrunk...