Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...original vision has already passed the House, but the going there is smoother because folks with two-year terms get a lot sicker of spending almost every day of them fund-raising for the next election. The Republican Senate has been squashing this bill for years, and the smart money says 1999 will be no different. Except that McCain will go hoarse trying to make this issue the national hot-button that he?s always dreamed it would be. "I am not in the business of identifying individuals or attacking individuals," he said Thursday, struggling to keep the debate...
...think Harvard students are smart enough to understand 20 percent interest and the fact that if you're going to make the minimum payment, you're going to be paying for a long time," he jokes...
Examining costs alone, Harvard made a smart decision to outsource. But it also raises concerns among students who wonder if the SSI guards are making a living wage. While SSI, as a private company, does not have to release its hourly wage to the public, by most accounts it is below the Harvard guard wage, and it is unclear whether or not its guards receive benefits...
...joining the Reform party and gunning for its presidential nomination. That the announcement will be made in the D.C. suburb of Falls Church, Va., pretty much sums up his appeal ?- he?s a political outsider who?s not too far outside and a political commentator who?s smart enough to sound halfway credible and wacky enough to appeal to the margins. Those who are waving Buchanan ashore see a rabble-rousing candidate (in the best sense of the phrase) who?ll bring a small army of followers and a measure of political professionalism to a young party whose power base...
...percent hurdle the party needs to hang on to its matching funds in 2004. But, and it's a big but, they have the effect of scaring everybody else away. The Reform party?s best long-term hopes, surely, are with a higher-rent crowd than that (think young, smart, successful and jaded, and you?ve got a constituency with a future). Buchanan?s would-be delegates, however, are already out in force, softening up the beach for when their man finally steps off the boat. Unless the Ventura/Trump/Weicker axis gets its act together soon, Buchanan will get exactly what...