Word: tap
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...Whip Tom DeLay marveled at the Teamsters' approach, which included posting envoys by wavering members' offices as well as by the House floor. The vote passed. "They say, 'This is jobs for us and votes for you,'" says senior adviser Mary Matalin of the union pitch. "There's no tap dancing. They deliver...
...surplus had somehow evaporated. The $158 billion left over is almost entirely made up of Social Security tax receipts--which Bush and congressional leaders have vowed not to touch. And this week the Congressional Budget Office is expected to release even more pessimistic figures, showing the government will tap those funds before the year ends. Cue up the attack ads--the ones in which each side accuses the other of endangering the retirement security of elderly Americans...
...public or private school, according to the Federal Government. Home schoolers participate in extracurricular activities too. Many of the home-schooling parents interviewed by TIME were just as busy as any parents scheduling baseball practices and ballet classes. Judi Thomas of Marietta, Ga., says her daughter Juliet, 9, "has tap and ballet on Tuesdays; Wednesdays, there's choir; Thursdays, she has classes with other home schoolers; Fridays, there's usually a play date or a field trip...
...have probably heard that there are no games yet that tap the potential of the Playstation 2 system. Not that it matters, since the hardware remains difficult to get. Still, "Kessen," by Koei Games, feels like a hint at the Playstation 2's potential as a new form of interactive entertainment...
...retail shops, they can detect when distributors poach on one another's territory. But Zhang's magic bullet in the PDA wars is a sleek regulation-blue Police PDA. Flip open the lid, press a button and the detailed files of some 300,000 criminal suspects are just a tap away. Given the size of China's vast law-and-order bureaucracy, Zhang hopes eventually to sell several hundred thousand Police PDAs to the security ministry. Next up, says Zhang, is a medical PDA that will store case records and allow doctors to write on-the-spot case notes...