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Liar is Thursdays word on the U.S. presidential election campaign.

The L word is used against Barack Obama in a TV ad released Thursday by the Mitt Romney campaign.

Meanwhile, the Obama campaign referred to Romneys big Bain lie following a hard-hitting Boston Globe investigation published today.

Mitt Romney stayed at Bain three years longer than he stated, reads the Boston Globe headline.

Mr. Romney has said he left Bain Capital in 1999, but the Globe cites government documents that show the former Massachusetts governor still listed as CEO for another three years.

The timing of Romneys departure from Bain is a key point of contention because he has said his resignation in February 1999 meant he was not responsible for Bain Capital companies that went bankrupt or laid off workers after that date, writes the Boston Globe.

The Romney campaign says the Boston Globe report is not accurate -- but that didnt stop the Obama campaign.

Romney hid the fact that he left Bain 3 years later than he claimed to avoid responsibility for outsourcing, etc, tweeted deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter.

Based on Globe report, either Bain filed false SEC docs about Mitts status, or [the] campaign [is] making false statements now, tweeted top Obama adviser David Axelrod.

Mr. Romneys tenure at Bain Capital has been a focus of reporters and the Obama campaign and it continues to dog the Republican presidential nominee.

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Romney and Obama campaigns trade ‘L-word’ as U.S. election race heats up

July 11, 2012, 9:02 AM PDT

Takeaway: Editing text is tedious work. Use these two shortcuts to delete whole words instead of single characters.

Many users delete text the hard way-character by character. Fortunately, there are many editing shortcuts, and Id like to share two that transform [Backspace] and [Delete] into deleting machines.

Pressing [Backspace] deletes the characters to the left of the insertion point, one at a time. When you need to delete an entire word, press [Ctrl]+[Backspace]. This shortcut deletes text to the left of the insertion point one word at a time instead of one character at a time. For instance, to delete the last four words in a paragraph, including the ending period character, youd hold down [Ctrl] and press [Backspace] five times. (Word counts a punctuation mark as a word.)

Pressing [Delete] removes the characters to the right of the insertion point, one character at a time. To delete several characters to the right, at once, press [Ctrl]+[Delete]. This combo deletes all the characters to the right of the insertion point in the current word. For instance, to remove cut in the word shortcut, youd position the insertion point between the t and the c, and press [Ctrl]+[Delete].

What deleting shortcuts do you use?

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Two useful Word shortcuts for quickly deleting text

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"Drop the i-word" is a campaign to stop using the word "illegal" in the immigration discussion.

By Miranda Leitsinger, msnbc.com

Whenever I write stories about illegal immigrants, I receive complaints that I should drop the i word (which is also the name of a campaign to end the use of the term illegal when referring to illegal immigrants).

In the interest of bringing this debate into the open, we solicited a few short opinion pieces from leading voices on immigration issues. We also asked the co-editor of the AP Stylebook, a key arbiter of word usage for journalists, to share his thoughts.

And we hope you weigh in in the comment section, too. Whats your take on the phrase illegal immigrant?

Word gamesBy Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington think tank that supports tighter immigration controls:

Courtesy of Mark Krikorian

Mark Krikorian is the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington think tank that supports tighter immigration controls.

"When the facts are against you, argue the law. When the law is against you, argue the facts. When both the law and the facts are against you, pound on the table."

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Drop the 'i' word? Debating the term 'illegal immigrant'

By GARY PINNELL | Highlands Today Published: July 11, 2012 Updated: July 11, 2012 - 12:00 AM

If Art Subklew could describe the 2012 election in a word, it would be exhausting.

Republicans and Democrats find little to agree on these days, but they react similarly to the 2012 presidential campaign. Nearly identical percentages of Republicans and Democrats say the election will be too tiring and annoying.

But on the positive side, there also is widespread agreement that the campaign will be informative and thrilling.

A June survey of 2,013 adults by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press found just 49 percent expect the election to be entertaining. Fifty-nine percent of Dems say the election will be exciting, compared with 51 percent of Republicans and just 41 percent of independents.

Sally Strickland's word is frustrating.

"People don't get it," said Strickland, who isn't an Obama supporter. If she could magically change something about this election, she'd force the candidates to tell the truth.

Eighty-five percent of Republicans and 83 percent Democrats say the campaign is important, as do 77 percent of independents. Not Crystal Serrano, who buys gold at Lakeshore Mall.

The Avon Park woman is apathetic. "I'm not a very political person. I'm trying to get into it. But my one vote doesn't really count for anything. I wish it could."

Monica Celebrano of Sebring is just annoyed. "It's not for me, it's really not."

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A word about the election

Jim Cramer says, The markets are as "dumb as plywood." But that's a good thing, because it means that anyone paying attention can profit from it, he says. Case in point: A 271-word press release from truck engine maker Cummins (CMI), which, just after 1 p.m. ET Tuesday, single-handedly took down the entire DJIA. Cramer said the press release starts out simple enough, with yet another dividend boost, but then things turn ugly when the release announced lowered full-year revenue guidance. Cramer said for a growth stock like Cummins, the lowering of revenue forecasts is a "death blow". It signals that the world is either slowing or the company's best days are behind it. In the case of Cummins, the company continues to innovate and take market share from rivals like Navistar (NAV), so it's clearly not a company in decline -- which means that the world's economies are indeed slowing more than forecast. Cramer said investors could of seen this coming an avoided it if they were listening to the Alcoa (AA) conference call Monday night. The aluminum maker told investors that demand was slowing more than forecast. Cramer said opportunities like today's can easily be spotted if investors have their eyes open and are paying attention. OFF THE CHARTS: Cramer and colleague Scott Redler went over the chart of Facebook (FB), the IPO disaster from two months ago that might finally be worth owning. Redler felt that shares are now a buy between $30.50 and $32.50 and he expects strength to continue to an additional seven to eight points of upside. Cramer, however, remains bearish on Facebook, saying it's too dangerous to own before the company reports earnings on July 26. Too many questions remain about the Facebook's business, he said, and only the earnings call can answer them. HOME RUN DERBY: The results are in and "Mad Money" viewers have voted Arena Pharmaceuticals (ARNA) as their pick for the biggest winner in the 2H of 2012. While the markets are expecting Belviq to be a $1B-$3B opportunity for the company, it may not be able to live up to the hype, Cramer says. All things considered, Cramer said that Arena has a risk-reward that's too dicey. He prefers Onyx Pharmaceuticals (ONXX), another of his five candidates from Monday's show. He said Onyx's blood cancer drug is also awaiting FDA approval and would be the company's second drug on the market. EXECUTIVE DECISION: Cramer sat down with Jeff Bradley, CEO of Globe Specialty Metals (GSM), a high-quality producer of silicon-based specialty metals. Shares of Globe are just off their 52-week lows but sales were up 5% in the company's most recent quarter. Cramer said Globe tells a compelling story and doesn't deserve to trade alongside other, ailing cyclical companies. NO HUDDLE OFFENSE: Cramer said he's still reluctant to call a bottom in natural gas. While it's true that drillers are slowing production and moving assets into finding oil, and both the U.S. and Canada are progressing with plans to export natural gas to the rest of world, that's still not enough to move the needle. LIGHTNING ROUND: (Bullish) HON buy on weakness; DIS; LULU; CMG; SBUX; CELG. (Bearish) TSCO; GR ring the register and sell; SCSS.

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