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...admire her stride, but that's because I am following in her footsteps. (Though, of course, she did it all in heels.) I've been on the other end of that phone line, tap-dancing to bring a source around. And this year, I've been shuttling from Washington to Austin, stuffing myself at age 32 into the Bush campaign jet the way she did into those drafty prop planes in the same town, at the same age, 40 years ago. I too have drinks at the Driskill hotel and send a postcard to my dad on a slow afternoon...
...Friday); its market value has collapsed almost $40 billion to a piddling $5.6 billion. Xerox has cut its quarterly dividends 75%, to 5[cents]. As it's not currently welcome in the bond market, where its credit rating has sunk to near junk-bond status, Xerox had to tap a $7 billion revolving credit line, setting off rumors that it might be on the verge of bankruptcy. (Xerox says there is no liquidity crisis...
...wanted to teach. "There are a lot of people who would make excellent teachers but are discouraged by the bureaucracy of the certification process," says Moore, 45, who began teaching fourth grade in Baltimore and now tests students for special education. "Troops to Teachers is an excellent way to tap their potential by lowering the barriers." Bush would also expand loan forgiveness for math and science majors who teach in needy schools...
...college tuition. A family could receive as much as $2,800 in tax credits each year for tuition and fee payments. Taxpayers would also be allowed to sock away as much as $2,500 a year in new tax-advantaged accounts, similar to 401(k)s, which they could tap at any age for higher education or job training. And Gore would spend $2 billion nationalizing a program, already in place in some states, that gives parents tax breaks to save for their kids' tuition...
When I go out for a drink with my friends, I always try to make them go to Scratcher. I like Scratcher. The place has weird British beers on tap. It has Christmas lights in the windows, even when it's not Christmas. I like Scratcher so much, in fact, that my friends refuse to go there with me anymore. The way I see it, I need either another group of friends or some other places to drink. That's where the new--and increasingly popular--handheld city guides come...