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...everywhere these days--in books, magazines, films, television, music videos and bus-stop perfume ads. It is printed on dial-a-porn business cards and slipped under windshield wipers. It is acted out by balloon-breasted models and actors with unflagging erections, then rented for $4 a night at the corner video store. Most Americans have become so inured to the open display of eroticism--and the arguments for why it enjoys special status under the First Amendment--that they hardly notice it's there...
...personal computing. By using Notes, teams of workers in different offices-or even different countries-can call the same documents to their computer screens and work on them together. Lotus commands fully 65% of all sales of groupware, which total about $500 million at present and are expected to balloon to $5 billion a year by the end of the decade. "Today, Notes is the only game in town," says Carter Lusher, a research director at the Gartner Group, which tracks the computer industry...
...fastest-growing items on the government's books is interest on its $4.8 trillion debt. This year the government will pay $235 billion in interest, an amount that exceeds its deficit of $176 billion. Without further deficit reduction, the Congressional Budget Office estimates, annual interest payments by 2002 would balloon to $334 billion -- money that goes to bondholders such as Ross Perot, who in 1992 reported that a chunk of his then $3.3 billion fortune was invested in low-risk government securities. Interest is one of the items targeted for massive cuts under G.O.P. budget plans -- $155 billion under Senator...
...addition to recapturing an old tradition,this year's Carnival also added a new essence aswell. "One thing I really like is that little kidscame by and enjoyed it," said Ehasz. With theirmothers standing by, children joined in on thetricks with the monkey or balloon-blowing with theclowns...
Accordingly, citizens' tax burdens would balloon to support the dead weight of these redundant yet autonomous bureaucracies. States with small populations would feel the inefficiencies most. California's bureaucracy would easily be able to handle Nevada's comparatively tiny needs, but no, Nevada has to have its own departments for its own block grants. States would be smart to combine their efforts, but then, isn't that exactly what they...