Word: spiked
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...billion in new spending for education, the environment, defense and other programs.) And the real cost of the new entitlements could be far higher than Gore claims. The cost of his prescription-drug benefit could easily spiral over the next 10 years, and it's sure to spike in coming decades as the baby boomers enjoy their dotage. If everyone who qualifies for his subsidized savings accounts signs on for them, the program could consume $600 billion in the next decade - three times what Gore assumes. In one of his bolder debate lines, Bush warned that Gore is "going...
...recent spike in executive resignations is reminiscent of a period in the early 1990s when several high-profile universities--Columbia, Yale, Duke and the University of Chicago--lost their presidents simultaneously...
...more of them. It's a shame you have to be a bitch to be respected. Jodie, Helen Hunt, and believe it or not Julia Roberts all maintain a conservative style but made it big without exploiting themselves." Post- "Girlfight," Rodriguez is also gaining more respect, starring in the Spike Lee- produced "3 A.M." with Danny Glover and Pam Grier, as well as the race-car drama "Redline" starring Vin Diesel. She's aware of the tag "Latina actress" and hopes to break free of that label by getting more physical in future films...
Meanwhile, I'm more intrigued by the antics of 2Gether, the pseudo-boyband that has its own fake weekly documentary and actually recently put together an extensive concert tour. After releasing their second album this past week and continuing to spike MTV ratings with their new primetime series, 2Gether continues to blur the line between reality and TV so much that I'm thoroughly confused as to what exactly is going on. Do they actually sing? When they appear in public, are you supposed to call them by their band member names or their real names? What do their groupie...
...work - this time. But what of the next comparatively mild spike in oil prices, and the next, and the next? The market will require ever-larger interventions to respond, and even begin discounting them the way they will sometimes discount Greenspan's moves. And the Fed chairman is a staunch political independent, while the energy secretary is always a political dependent. The SRP, reserved for national emergencies, stands to become a political plaything of the administration, used to tweak prices and elect vice presidents, and soon all 570 million barrels will be in play. Want to heat voters' homes this...