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...choose to run very large deficits, it's not a huge problem." Now loosen that belt. Lights, Camera, IPO Want a piece of the movies? Los Angeles-based Civilian Pictures is offering 900,000 shares in an upcoming picture Billy Dead. At $8.75 a pop, the firm hopes to attract over $7 million to make the murder mystery...
...would be in policies ranging from the Monroe Doctrine to the Marshall Plan, they were the warp and woof of a sturdy foreign policy. And when countries such as France felt that the soft suasion of idealism was lacking, as has recently been the case, it proved harder to attract them to a cause. "America's great historical moments," historian Bernard Bailyn has noted, "have occurred when realism and idealism have been combined, and no one knew this better than Franklin...
OPPOSITES ATTRACT Starting with a simple glass tube that collected static charge when rubbed, above, and later using a hand-cranked machine built for the same purpose, left, Franklin meticulously experimented on the behavior of electricity. Perhaps his most important discovery was that electrical phenomena involve equal amounts of opposite charges. He used the terms positive and negative to describe them...
...industry - scramble for a bigger share of the bridal business. Wedding planners report that the trend is also catching on in Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium, with couples heading to the sunnier climes of southern Europe to exchange vows. Long-haul locales like the Caribbean or Las Vegas attract plenty of couples, but for larger weddings - 150 guests is about as big as destination weddings get - couples are more likely to remain closer to home. "It's less a case of getting married on a beach in the Caribbean these days," says Vikki Berg, travel editor at Brides magazine...
...fits very well with our own mission to attract highly qualified international students to Harvard,” he said...