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...grievance, almost no one is willing to admit that times actually are pretty good. Polls show the citizenry fairly gloomy about general economic prospects even while conceding that their own prospects are O.K. Republicans are reduced to grumbling that modest, steady growth is not good enough and that Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve Board, rather than Clinton, deserve the credit in any event. (There's an inherent contradiction here: If the Fed sets the rate of growth, how can Clinton be blamed that it's not faster?) Clinton, meanwhile, has the happier but still tricky task of taking credit...
...proposed investments and the middle-class tax cut. It meant proposing new taxes, which outraged Republicans, and spending cuts, which troubled some Democrats. It meant braving the warnings of deficit hawks that higher taxes and less spending would lead to stagnation or recession, and following the advice of Republican Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, who insisted that a credible deficit-reduction program would lower interest rates enough to push the economy ahead...
...Wall Street is wondering. Could tobacco really become the next asbestos? "It's certainly not an area where an investor can jump in," says Alan Ackerman, a market strategist at Fahnestock & Co. While stock prices of the big tobacco firms used to rebound quickly after bad news, August has been the long goodbye. Philip Morris plunged from $104.66 a share to $88, and RJR Nabisco from $30.75 to $25.50. Loews Corp., parent of Lorillard Tobacco, slipped from $80.66 to $74.75. "This has all the makings of a tobacco Chernobyl," says Ackerman. Not if you ask the accountants. Overall, profits...
...improves his ability to implant it in his head," Warner says. The muscles formed in his memory, in his ability to juggle half a dozen ideas or agendas or details with an ease that left his colleagues gasping. "I'd have something important to tell him," recalls Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson, "and so I'd go up to him and say, 'I've got to talk. While I was giving him a one minute, [Arizona Senator John] McCain would walk by and say something, and [Massachusetts Senator Ted] Kennedy would walk by, and three or four other guys...
...setting, as we are supposed to tell from the print ads where Emma (Gwyneth Paltrow) elegantly raises a cup as if in a coffee ad. As all you Austen fans know, Emma tries to mastermind a match between Harriet Smith (Toni Collette) and the clergyman Mr. Elton (Alan Cumming), but then gets somewhat of a surprise herself. Mr. Knightley (Jeremy Northam), Emma's governess (Greta Scacchi), Mrs. Elton (Juliet Stevenson), and so on--all take their respective places...