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...also have something to do with it. This was the time when Bush's $1.6 trillion cut had been pushed through the House, and people realized that even if the Senate was going to be a much tougher fight, Congress did have a sense of urgency about tax relief, and that people were definitely going to get some kind of significant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Suddenly, Consumers See a Brighter Tomorrow | 3/27/2001 | See Source »

...that's if it passes. Last week's goodwill may have been a false spring. This week the bill faces far tougher votes, any one of which could be fatal. "With each change, I think you lessen the opportunity for us to keep Democrats together and in support of a bill that they can no longer identify as McCain-Feingold," Daschle warned early in the debate. Three days later he added, "There are some bright warning signs, some blinking yellow lights about the direction that we are going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Finance: Debating For Dollars | 3/25/2001 | See Source »

...college you're going to face girls with a lot more experience," Cooley said. "And people are tougher mentally and physically...

Author: By Kathryn J. Hodel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Large Corps of Freshmen Leads Softball to Success | 3/21/2001 | See Source »

...much enjoy my job, am having a very good time--don't consider it stressful," he told reporters last week, less than 24 hours after he was released from the hospital. And clearly Cheney's puckish sense of humor has suffered no blockage. "The stress level is a lot tougher when you're doing something you don't like, like being a reporter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Cheney Slow Down? | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...destruction. The party's smart money last year settled on George W. Bush precisely because he was thought immune to the party's traditional suicidal impulses, to "extremism in the defense of liberty," as Goldwater called it, and to ideological seppuku as practiced by Newt. Bush may yet prove tougher, smarter and foxier than some previous Republicans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Bush Treading the Path Paved by Gingrich? | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

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