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...effect, importing about $400 billion in net investment this year, says Lindsey, the U.S. has become more dependent on foreign capital than at any time since 1896--or, says Wyss, since the 1860s. And if those overseas centimillionaires change their mind about the best place to invest, the U.S. would get hit with a double whammy. It would lose some of the investment that has been keeping the boom going, and the dollar's value would fall, raising the cost of imports and the many U.S. products that are assembled partly from imported components. Feldstein figures a 15% drop...
...club evolved from mock trial to pure drama in 1844 with the presentation of "Bombastes Furioso" by Lemuel Hayward in Hollis. According to the catalogue, by 1849, the metamorphosis was complete and the society moved into a space in the north entry of Stoughton Hall. The 1850s and 1860s featured seven or eight shows a season...
...next movie is Martin Scorsese's The Gangs of New York, about the conscription riots in Manhattan in the 1860s, and DiCaprio has been forcing himself to bulk up for the part. At 5 ft. 11 in. and 175 lbs., he claims he can bench-press 205 lbs. "This is the biggest I've ever been," he says. I ask if he's been eating a lot of sushi and yogurt, and he mocks me for my unmanly choices. Then we order room service, and he gets a burger and I almost order the sea bass. "That was pretty wussy...
...with lots of pickup trucks in their parking lots, a Kum & Go convenience store, cow pastures and the dull, forever flatness of the prairie. You've heard of places described as cow towns? Coffeyville was actually labeled Cow Town on maps on account of the stockyards here. In the 1860s the name was changed to honor Colonel James A. Coffey, who set up a grand trading post on the frontier, selling stuff to Native Americans...
ITALY --Each of Italy's 20 regions has its own archive, usually in the capital, which houses birth, marriage and death certificates dating back to the 1860s. No websites; records available only by visiting archives or town halls...