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...also mean staying put. Postretirement moves can sever even the best of friendships, so seniors and their families are wise to weigh the social costs of relocating against the advantages of living near relatives. Thus far, Bill Boergerhoff, 78, a retired meatcutter in Villa Park, Ill., has resisted his daughter's pleas that he move to California to be closer to her. "I don't know anybody out there," he says. "Here, when I walk into the grocery store, at least 10 people say, 'Hi.'" Then there are his friends at the local Veterans of Foreign Wars post, with whom...
...wise men in D.C. began to weigh in. "Do they know what they're up against?" asked a befuddled Bush supporter in Congress. The old and deep bitterness over alleged Democratic dirty tricks also bubbled up like a hot spring. Senators and Congressmen were calling officials at the r.n.c. saying, "Don't let them get away with...
Bush's decision to spend 24 of the last 48 hours of the campaign in Florida, then, in retrospect, seems a wise...
...Less wise, perhaps, was Gore's failure to enlist President Clinton to bring out the Democratic vote in Arkansas. Clinton ended up only spending one day stumping for Gore in his home state...
Another common misperception is that the NCAA actually takes the time to do a pair-wise comparison of every team using human observation, matching their relative performances head-to-head, and arranging the teams in such a way as to reduce the number of contradictions between the rankings and the head-to-head results...