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...some students are already advanced enough to skip to the next level...
...deficits that Bush had begun, Alan Greenspan went to bat for him with the bond markets, long-term interest rates flattened, and two terms of bragging and bulletproof prosperity ensued. But toward the end, a huge market bubble formed and burst, just in time for Clinton to skip town and leave Bush to deal with...
...news with them. Congressmen go on recess and head back to their home districts; the White House usually follows suit. And the big-time journalists and pundits that dutifully fill newspapers, magazines, cable channels and web sites with all that familiar Beltway blather have their best chance to skip town without missing too much. (Except for those so desperate to be on television that they won't even schedule a vacation...
...immediate, comprehensive review of our military," Bush announced at The Citadel in South Carolina - a review that would cover "the structure of its forces, the state of its strategy, the priorities of its procurement." These would be radical changes, he said, pushing the military beyond "marginal improvements" to "skip a generation of technology...
...tradition. If they think they haven?t got a good chance of winning a particular tournament, or if the event is the least bit inconvenient to get to, then they give it a miss, even if it?s a competition of some importance. "I do feel too many Americans skip the British," Faxon says. "I?ve been saying that for some time. It?s a great tournament, and if you?re lucky enough to be among the game?s elite, you should play it. Look, if you have a 20-year career, that?s 80 majors you might be able...