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...problem is that most of the people who are reading this couldn't spell Kevin McHale back when the last banner made its way up to the rafters. The Celts today are flat out boring to watch...
Consumer advocates urged Congress to include in the legislation a provision requiring credit-card companies to spell out on each monthly statement the number of years it would take a cardholder to pay off the debt by making minimum payments, and how much that would cost overall. But that proposal went nowhere because it was opposed by the credit-card industry. The Senate version of the bill requires companies to include on monthly statements a toll-free number that cardholders can call to find out how long it would take them to pay off their loan...
...seeds of a candidate's demise can often be found in the details of his own policies. As George W. Bush discovered last week, there is no surer way to invite a scathing attack than to spell out in detail what you plan to do. And Bush didn't even do that, really. When he committed himself to partly privatizing Social Security, he blurred the details but committed heresy. Bush's plan, Gore warned grimly, would "put the retirement income of American workers at risk...
...nine-year drought is the longest dry spell of any of the four Beanpot teams...
...stolen or lost, the case has drawn attention to the plight of government secrets in the computer age. One the one hand, the digital revolution has made information considerably easier to transfer and access; on the other, it's making information ... easier to transfer and access. And that can spell bad news when you're charged with guarding computer files that contain lists of American spies and other secrets. Thus the disappearance of the laptop, which contained information classified as "code word" - more important than "top secret" - from the supposedly secure State Department building proved the final straw in leading...