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Instead, for the time being, the council is being forced to cut costs whenever possible--a fact that is already taking a toll on students...
...questions about foreign policy and the military took a slight toll on Al Gore. "We're going to face some serious new challenges in the next four years" said Gore. "Inaccuracy" said the computer. Maybe we're not. Well, that's good news, I guess. But Bush was judged even more severely. His statement that we have to stand by Israel got a "Truth." But his follow-up, "We need to reach out to modern Arab nations as well" drew a big "False Statement." Either Bush was lying or the Israeli software was trying to short-circuit any pan-Arab...
...also take the decathlon, the triathlon and the mathlon, not to mention the pommel horse, the high horse, the gift horse and the pole vault with horse? By the time I got to the 50,000-m, trans-Sydney long jump, I was wiped. The Games take their toll on an old sport...
Prices at bed-and-breakfasts, which average $104 to $133 a night, depending on the region, rival the rates of good hotels. While some 10,000 B and Bs are private homes in which the owners offer a room or two, most are serious businesses, complete with websites and toll-free numbers...
...decline hasn't pounded the U.S. market too hard because traders have been focusing on just one aspect of it: vaporized earnings as euros are converted to dollars. But there's a second shoe that might drop. Oil is sky high, and because oil is priced in dollars, the toll has risen way faster in Europe. The spike could trigger a dramatic slowdown that spills across the pond as U.S. earnings erode...