Word: todays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kind. Cars packed with families, pets and suitcases crept west at hours per mile, and when Floyd cruised on by, folks were inclined to feel that safe had been exactly the same as sorry. "There was no need to go," Georgia convenience-store owner Subhash Patel told the USA Today after his four-and-a-half-hour, 39-mile trip cost him two days of business. "We got scared unnecessarily by the media, by all the attention." Total evacuation: over 3 million, the largest in U.S. history...
...People joked about Ivy League football that it was 'tough tackle with pads,'" Dockery recalls. "There was graffiti on my locker from people like Joe Namath saying things like 'Ivy League practice today...
...difference is ostensibly that the hierarchies in today's student groups, publications, government simulations, and such, unlike the elitist final club scene of Roosevelt's time, are based on merit. But anyone who has ever applied for a position and seen it go to a friend or roommate of the student making the decision knows this isn't true...
...Wednesday as a tame inflation number - a 0.3 percent hike in the Consumer Price Index, with just a 0.1 hike in the "core" rate - sparked a 100-point rally that traders promptly sold off for fun and profit. On the Fed watch, TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl figures today?s number and yesterday?s ?- a mildly alarming boost in retail sales ?- cancel each other out. "My sense from the last meeting was that the Fed was done unless it saw some clear and unambiguous evidence that inflation was on the rise," he says. "And there certainly hasn?t been...
...signs of terrorist activity. They claim to be looking for a two-ton consignment of explosives transported to the capital in sugar bags, and have arrested more than 20 people on suspicion of involvement in terrorism. "But the bombing reveals a lot of what?s wrong in Russia today," says Meier. "The terrorists are suspected of using locally manufactured high-grade plastic explosives, which would imply that someone in the military is selling it. Then it?s transported through all sorts of checkpoints, probably by bribing officials. And then the perpetrators manage to find experts trained...