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...People who have been out of college for threeor four years are in a tougher position,"Cosentino said. "They won't be willing to takelower-level, low-playing grunt work, but thosefresh out of college will be more apt to takethose positions...
...hard to imagine a screenwriter doing justice to Watson's real-life complexity. Her feminism, such as it is, does not fit cinematic cliches. Watson originally applied to the police department because working in its juvenile division seemed a more apt use of her psychology degree from Texas Tech than taking stenographic dictation at the city tax department. But when McGaughran heard about this career move, she asked, "Are you sure? Have you considered the cut of their uniforms?" McGaughran stresses that "Betsy and I are pretty traditional homebodies. This thing with the police department was just a progression...
...once the overworked phrase was apt: an era ended last week. Almost 10 years to the day after Ronald Reagan won the Presidency by promising to simultaneously cut taxes, expand defense spending, balance the federal budget and foster a new prosperity, Congress passed and sent to the White House a deficit-reduction plan that made no pretense of trying to accomplish those mutually exclusive goals. Capping more than five months of partisan wrangling, finger pointing and evasion, a new reality had forced itself upon a reluctant Washington: there is no way for the U.S. to get its fiscal house...
...market plunge has forced many institutional investors in Japan to dump foreign holdings to bolster their dwindling supplies of cash. While Japanese industrial giants still crave strategic mergers with glamorous U.S. firms, as in the case of Matsushita Electric's expected bid for Hollywood's MCA, they are less apt to invest in American real estate. Several Japanese investment firms that bought U.S. buildings during the 1980s are now quietly putting the edifices back on the market...
Because the former are increasingly in conflict with the latter, many nation-states are becoming obsolete; the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, India and others demonstrate that their artificial Nationality does not satisfy their nationalities. Nation-states are apt to be too small and ineffective to cope with the global economy and yet too large and insensitive to cope satisfactorily with local problems...