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...points. Now that it has settled in on a plateau above that lofty summit, people are wondering what it will take to push it to 5000. Old-timers in the market can remember the Dow bumping up against 1000 for 11 years, but lately it's made a brisk ascent: 2000 in 1987, 3000 in 1991 and 4000 in 1995, gaining 1,000 points every 1,400 days. At this pace, it will reach 5000 sometime around the turn of the century...
Some powerful companies have even managed to raise their prices during the yen's ascent without fear of losing business. These companies, with names like Kyocera and Minebea, control vast global markets for little-known but essential items such as ceramic packages for semiconductors and precision-engineered ball bearings for jet engines. In a controversial new book called Blindside, journalist Eamonn Fingleton argues that these firms help ensure that Japan will overtake the U.S. as the world's leading economy by the year 2000. "Their success to date has been greater than most Americans realize," he writes, "and constitutes...
Conservatives in Washington today are preoccupied with their recent ascent to power, and are now happily meeting, planning and networking to parley that power toward a common agenda in the next two years and to a presidency beyond that. The question now is how long can the Democrats, namely Clinton, withstand the Republican onslaught before we begin to see cracks in his resolve, as well as his own values? Can he stand firm...
...story of Leibovitz's ascent into the company of Socrates and Jeremiah begins in 1967. Immediately following the Arab-Israeli war (a moment Israelis wittily call "the seventh day" of the Six-Day War), Leibovitz predicted that Israeli occupation of the newly conquered West Bank and Gaza Strip would erode the moral fiber of the Jewish state...
...stealing the book, Wilson has enslaved the people of Gamehenge. The story then turns to wilson's accountant who has been cough embezzling funds for the revolution. His execution is performed in the public square by "The AC/DC Bag." This disastrous turn of events inspires "Colonel Forbin's Ascent" up the mountain to seek the advice of Icculus, the god of the Lizard people and author of the "Helping Friendly Book." As he climbs, rocks begin to fall all around him, taking the shape of the face of Icculus, who calls upon the "Famous Mockingbird" to fly to the castle...