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...always right" is a commonly heard one, but it is even more commonly misunderstood. We quite simply don't know what it means--and unfortunately, neither do the proprietors of many businesses. Although it may be vague and cliched, the statement is not meaningless. Allow me to make an attempt to provide it with some definition...
Weld made his announcement at Dole's campaign headquarters in Manchester, N.H. Flanked by New Hampshire Gov. Steve Merrill, the move was an attempt to show widespread support for Dole, the party's top-ranking official...
...filling up the time. Increasingly fed up with the sordid people he encounters in his midnight runs--prostitutes, pimps, pushers and various basket cases--he begins a strict physical and mental regimen in pursuit of some goal at which we can only guess. After an innocent attempt to woo a senator's aide (Cybill Shepherd) and to rescue a teenage prostitute (Jodie Foster) from the streets, Travis resorts to drastic means to make something happen. First stalking the senator, then turning his attention back to the "scum of the streets," Travis moves inexorably towards a destructive climax...
...does he reach such a conclusion? Director Martin Scorsese does not attempt to explain, but chooses to chronicle, sometimes sympathetically, Travis's descent into violence (or, in his mind, his ascent towards justice). Whatever deeper psychological history lies in Travis's past, we never find out: as the movie's focus brings us closer and closer into his own world, we observe firsthand the wanderings of this tortured soul...
...kill it. Microsoft, which abandoned its bid to acquire Intuit and its popular Quicken program amid antitrust allegations, is pursuing a partnership with Visa International instead. The top software and credit card providers, respectively, said Wednesday that they would team up to offer online banking services in an attempt to break Intuit's lock on the personal-finance software market. Quicken gained its 80 percent niche by allowing users to pay their bills electronically, with the processing handled by Intuit. The Microsoft-Visa plan would allow people to pay bills directly from their bank accounts using the rival program Microsoft...