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He still exaggerates the hostility displayed, and says that Saxton won't let me answer when in fact Reich's chief economist is later allowed to deliver a lecture-length reply.
Reich's top adviser regarding the economy delivered a reply.
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But who window shops anymore, except at 35 mph, through a window set in the frame of a vehicle?
Window shopping has lost popularity
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The message confused some of Red Eye's subscribers, and Red Herring rapidly began a damage control campaign.
Some of Red Eye's subscribers were confused, so Red Herring started their efforts to repair the damage.
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One free-lancer tells of building much of a summer traveling with her husband in the West and Europe around a couple of Conde Nast assignments.
The tasks of one free-lancer resulted in a summer of travel.
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Lee's bodyguard and cook (and, one presumes, slave).
The bodyguard isn't being paid for all this work.
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Finally, on July 30, the committee passed a third, slightly weaker, article 21-17, which charged the president with having willfully disobeyed subpoenas.
The committee was disbanded before late July.
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To get reporters to stop asking about Lewinsky, Clinton doesn't have to give them the truth, he just has to tire them out.
Reporters are asking Mr. Clinton about Mrs. Lewinsky.
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Faster, Pussycats!
The cats are not moving quickly enough for the speaker.
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High Crimes is supposed to show that Clinton's enemies have a strong legal case against him.
High Crimes is a book containing legal arguments against Bill Clinton.
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particular national We are simultaneously subject to every other national jurisdiction.
We are subject to local jurisdictions as well as national.
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I am generally a fan of Michael Kinsley's, but I must take issue with his recent article, Social From Ponzi Scheme to Shell Game.
I don't really care of Michael Kinsley's article on scams.
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Because CNN executives crash so frequently, CNN devotes round-the-clock coverage to wait, that doesn't quite follow.
CNN's coverage is put on pause because it's executives crash so much.
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Time 's feature argues that settling is trickier than it Can Clinton acknowledge Jones' claim and not admit to any wrongdoing?
Clinton wants to settle with Jones.
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No wonder, then, that right-wingers think of PBS as liberal and lefties regard it as a corporate/conservative tool.
Some right-wing people think that PBS has a liberal bias.
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Finally, we can try to remove temptation, by avoiding policy initiatives that make it easy for politicians to play favorites.
There is nothing we can do to remove the ability of politicians to play favorites.
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It's a full-time job just controlling the young hotheads on some NBA squads.
NBA squads hire full time employees just to control the young hotheads on the team.
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Some of my songs are about four minutes, some are about five minutes and some, believe it or not, are about 11 or 12.
Some songs are longer.
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Go forth and cover culture and the arts.
You should cover what's going on within the culture and arts scene.
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But the IRS isn't out of control.
The IRS is well regulated.
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Oh, it often gets the least important things right, the facts, the small t truth.
Its renown is unparalleled among similar competitors for its ability to ascertain all truths.
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What Meier's work lacks is heat, an organic flow.
After acquiring heat, Meier's work will still be lacking
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A companion piece advocates destroying food bacteria with low-level radiation.
Food bacteria do not exist
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to be such excellent quiz wranglers.
The author has participated in a quiz with others.
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Why don't you respond that, in the infinite wisdom of your procrastination, you somehow divined the marriage would be a dud, and you think you will give this one a similar two year trial period?
This person is a procrastinator.
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Critics' principal target is the company's policy of pegging doctors' investment returns to profits at Columbia/HCA-affiliated institutions.
The company has a policy of pegging doctor's investment returns to profits.
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They arrived in the summer of 1996.
The group arrived in the winter of 1997.
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It will probably have no effect on future elections or public policy.
It is unlikely to affect elections because of a law that was passed
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It's the most prestigious, appearing as it does in the premier book review in the country.
It's the least prestigious, appearing as it does in the worst book review in the country.
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(Gillette owns 67 percent of the U.S. razor market, and Campbell's has more than 75 percent of the U.S. soup market.)
Both Campbell's and Gillette used to be smaller companies, but now they are multinational corporations.
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He did not, however, suggest that everybody follow his example.
There is one right way to do everything.
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Another online pollster, Harris Interactive, is using its Harris Poll Online to learn about the public's views on the 2000 election.
Harris Interactive is an online pollster.
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A pair of inventing brothers is building a Model-T for the air--a $179,400 plane with simplified controls and a giant parachute for safer crash landings.
The brothers are building a lightweight airplane that has simplified controls and a giant parachute
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As in America, British news organizations offer a wide variety of information to Web surfers.
That America and Britain offer any information online is false because they are void of internet capabilities.
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I think I can read your story between the lines.
The story can only be interpreted one way.
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Admirably reticent, compared to Robert Bennett.
shared feelings easily compared to Robert Bennet
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The trade organization was created in 1995 as the third leg of the world financial order, along with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
The trade organization was disbanded in 1990
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Your advice to struck me as amazing.
The advice sounded helpful.
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Why don't you refresh your recollection for a while, and we'll talk when I'm back.
I'm not leaving until you apologize.
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The daughter's boyfriend, Dominic, is a cynic who lives only for himself.
Dominic is single
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But this letter is long enough, possibly too long for the format, so I will leave discussion of Lemann's attempt to sum up to the next letter.
This letter is short
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Who can blame him for lying to the gullible young?
It is not his fault if the young people choose to believe him.
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It's Sunday, what channel is this?
The day of the week is Sunday.
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The United States abandoned its policy of stabilizing gold prices back in 1971.
giving up on stabilizing gold prices was a bad idea
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Washington can't erase jurisdictional frontiers, but it can encourage metropolitan government via tax incentives and cheerleading.
Expunging abilities of Washington solely of jurisdictional frontiers are nonexistent.
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By then Gore will be campaigning seriously, distancing himself from Clinton, and running macho ads; Bradley will have defined his big ideas and endured the inevitable media backlash to his current rave notices; and the voters will actually be paying attention.
Gore wants to be seen as independent of Clinton, as being strong on his own.
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His to find out more about Kathleen Willey's allegations of sexual harassment by Clinton.
Kathleen Willey alleged that she was sexually harassed by a United States president.
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Should he try and then fail, Beijing will conclude that it is dealing with a weak administration.
The administration has been suspected of being weak for a long time.
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In a delicious turn, Christopher Plummer makes the co-anchor less a journalist than a pompous prima donna, but he also gives him a bullying force and real charisma.
Christopher Plummer changes the entire look of being a co-anchor.
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This alleged societal dynamic becomes her methodological justification for using the stories of the underemployed, contracted-out, and laid-off men of Southern California to illuminate more general male losses.
The stories of the underemployed, contracted-out, and laid-off men of Southern California are shown as humorous.
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Such cultural tourism has become the specialty of a new breed of insta-museum, built solely to imbue foreign masterpieces with glitz and mystique.
The new breed of insta-museums are built sorely to imbue domestics masterpieces with glitz and mystique.
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Leave it to the Globe to conclude, JFK Jr, Slashed!
The Globe wrote a piece about JFK, Jr.
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We remember the Marshall Plan today not because Secretary of State George Marshall gave a great speech (he didn't) or because President Truman maneuvered the bill creating the staff and bureaucracy of the European Recovery Administration through Congress.
The ERA was created by Nixon, just to rub salt in their wounds.
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The piece features what is sure to be a major element of any Bradley a surfeit of tired sports metaphors.
People hate the piece because of the excessive use of tired sports metaphors.
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8) The common currency will help global corporations while stripping each European nation of its power to make its own destiny.
European nations will find a way to make sure that their power is not removed by the ordinary currency.
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Esme, played by Judi Dench, is an actress who lives for the theater.
Judi Dench fully relates to Esme.
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This is a cheerful thought, but it also means that invoking covert productivity increases doesn't help explain why even measured inflation remains quiescent.
Measured inflation is currently active.
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A rancid little nothing of a movie (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ) that's a grim, gross wannabe Farrelly brothers flick.
Stephen Holden refused to write movie reviews for the New York Times.
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Or, perhaps most striking of all, consider a set piece in which Reich speaks to the National Association of Manufacturers.
National Association of Manufacturers would advocate for closing factories
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But skeptics suggest a darker that the Lippo fee was a payoff to Hubbell to keep quiet about Whitewater.
The Lippo fee kept Hubbell quiet.
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Why hasn't natural selection corrected the immune system's misguided response?
In certain circumstances the immune system fails to react appropriately
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The bottle suggested one 3-milligram tablet before bedtime.
The suggestion is to used one 3 milligram tablet before bed.
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Come fall and winter, surges and stumbles will really mean something.
Spring and summer are the only seasons where surges and stumbles have impact.
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Well, there has been an excruciatingly technical argument about this, mysteriously known as the double dividend debate; the general consensus seems to be no, and that on balance pollution taxes would be more likely to reduce GDP slightly than to increase it.
This is the last straw, those pollution taxes would cause each American's production of wealth to lower.
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But if you're an optimist and expect to practice future self-control, you'll be inclined to save your money and pass it along into your own future good hands.
Living in the moment and spending everything is advisable.
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The Globe stretches the reconciliation theme to new heights with a story suggesting that the fates are trying to bring John F. Kennedy Jr. back to his ex Daryl Hannah.
JFK Jr. and Daryl Hannah are married.
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Researchers are performing placebo-controlled surgical trials in which they cut patients open and sew them back up without doing anything.
Cutting patients open and not doing anything is seen as placebo-controlled surgical trials.
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They're deceased!
They are dead.
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In other words, what yadda yadda yadda can convey is something You and I know all the points that would ordinarily be inserted at this place in the conversation, so let's just skip it and move on.
Yadda Yadda Yadda is being used as an insult.
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I have never given it a second thought, but recently people seem to be noticing my sneezing and commenting on it, some suggesting I see a doctor.
I'm sneezing a lot.
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Such thinking has no doubt fostered an environment in which, reports the Journal , AT&T has 8,000 employees married to each other.
AT & T has workers that are single mothers.
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But just between you and me, it's really bad.
Things could be worse.
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Navel-gazingly yours, Katharine
Katharine is enamored with navels.
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When we're there, however, she spends a large part of the evening on the phone or on the computer.
She spends part of the evening on the phone or computer
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Nor has the fun we all had sneering at England's squandering its North Sea oil windfall in the '70s and '80s kept the Republican Party from proposing to give away the budget surplus to their rich constituents.
The Republican Party rushed to spend the surplus on welfare and social health care programs.
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All I missed was something more than winks and hints about the nature of the triangle among Cahill, his wife, and her sister (the lush Angeline Ball), with whom he fathered several children.
Cahill, his wife, and her sister, raised several children together.
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the tester meows as he drops the vermin on the developer's doorstep.
The feline like tester leaves vermin near the step's riser of the developer.
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Would it be rude if I took a nice bottle of French wine (OK, maybe two)?
I'd want to take some of the French wine, but would like to know if it's socially acceptable.
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Under my plan, sales taxes would only be not eliminated on certain socially desirable purchases, but also good shoppers would receive an anti-tax, a bonus for their beneficent purchases.
A change in sales taxes is part of the plan.
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All these guys just have to be worried.
They are all woried
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The primary purpose of this conversation is not to convey any specific information.
The conversation was never intended to communicate any particular thing.
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Israeli security officials believed that the murdered real-estate dealer was executed by plainclothes Palestinian Authority police.
It is possible a real-estate dealer was killed by plainclothes Palestinian Authority police.
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Carlson says he has had calls from the conservative Politburo, including one from Michael Ledeen, a former Reagan National Security aide, who told him, No one who believes what we believe should be attacking Grover.
Carlson is a conservative that is being essentially told to know his lane.
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In Take This Simple Test, Steven E. Landsburg goes into quite some mathematical detail about the public's so-called irrationality.
Landsburg is found in Take This Simple Test.
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Morris was close enough to Leuchter to have gotten something more, to have gone a little deeper in search of a poison that does penetrate surfaces.
Morris and Leuchter were not far apart.
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We won't be making extravagant claims for the Internet anymore, but will accept that it's just a tool--sometimes extremely useful, sometimes not.
We refuse to accept that the internet is just a tool.
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The basic tool of statistical social science in general, and of The Bell Curve in particular, is regression analysis, a technique used to assign weights to various factors (called independent variables) in determining a final outcome (called the dependent variable).
Regression analysis has yet to be used in social science.
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A number of Korean businesses went bankrupt, either because of dishonest practices or because the possible Korean share of world markets for some products, like automobiles, had been overestimated.
Korean businesses in the electronics sector also went bankrupt
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But it remains exceedingly hard to watch, not so much because of the repulsiveness of De Niro's Jake La Motta as because of its overall sense of aesthetic claustrophobia.
Raging Bull is beautifully photographed and a pleasure to behold.
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However you fiddle with the rates, there will always be a perceived penalty on somebody.
Rates are changed to benefit one group of people.
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If Darth Vader had built C-3PO as a young man, how come he never paid much attention to him in the other movies--and vice versa?
Darth Vader was tech savvy in his youth.
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Also, most individuals do not screen their e-mail address books politically, meaning that a solicitation sent out to all a person's contacts may well end up in the hands of someone who doesn't want it--which could turn into a public relations problem.
An e-mail solicitation ending up in the hands of someone that doesn't want cannot turn into a public relations problem.
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Then Lehman hit into the rough by the 16 th green and lost a stroke.
Lehman was not doing well near the 16th green.
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But when the industry attempted to create , the same activists protested again, declaring the safer cigarette evil because it would encourage smokers to continue their habit.
The industry panders to youth for sales.
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One answer is to try to change the incentives of politicians, by making it more difficult for special interests to buy influence.
The way to go about it, which would make it unattractive for politicians to sell out to lobbyists for special interests, would improve things.
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You can fast the next day.
You can fast for multiple days in a row.
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Drug-policy experts and social scientists seem to agree that social and cultural factors are driving up teen drug use.
All young people are addicted to illegal substances.
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Someone asks the CNN guy, How are the ratings these days?
Someone asks how are the guys
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Mind you, not just something wrong, but something that would separate you from God and send you to hell if death came before confession.
It is possible to do something that would separate you from God and send you to hell if death came before confession.
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And according to the WP TV column, the two talk when they're in the exercise yard together--about old-time flicks they've enjoyed on Turner Classic Movies, which they see via the prison's free cable hook-up.
They discuss the movies with everyone they come across in the yard.
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American Movie suggests that there's no such thing as the little people in the hinterlands anymore.
The hinterlands lost the last of their little people in 2016 according to American Movie
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