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Four-digit fever has swept Wall Street periodically since Dec. 31, 1976, when the Dow Jones average of 30 leading industrial stocks last cracked the 1,000-point level. But rarely had an assault on the magic barrier been more furious-or inconclusive-than the trading melee that last week nudged the Dow briefly, and by the barest fraction, into quadruple digits...
...absolutely convinced that they are right. Once the fire has seized the convert--once the seed of conviction is planted at a circus-tent revival meeting or through a multi-cassette mail-order course in Christian fundamentalism--it burns, un-flickering, fueled by the comfort of Absolutes. A protecting barrier between the flame and the winds of thought, rationality, diversity, and complication, the Bible is the answer book. Right-wing conservatism--the Way. The Book--the Truth. The flame--the Light. Only one thing missing...
...panel urged the university to prohibit alcohol from the stands and to build a barrier in the stadium to prevent further injuries...
...outside to find out what had happened, there were no planes to be seen. As the diners went back inside to resume their meal, the unanimous conclusion was that it was not an Iranian raid at all, but a sonic boom caused by an Iraqi MiG breaking the sound barrier...
Such a project could not have happened fifteen years ago," Roy Vernon, Dillon Professor of International Affairs, who is supervising part of the program, said Friday. "The language barrier is over, and the concept of empirical economic analysis and disinterested academic research has only recently become familiar in Japan," he added...