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...federal highway fund is expected to go into the red, forcing the issue.) It hasn't helped that prices of concrete and asphalt have spiked in recent years as India and China have poured money into their road systems. But those are just excuses. The real problem is bigger and simpler...
...BUZZ States balked over the $11 billion tab, but a bigger issue may have been civil liberties: activists are worried that the card would let the government track citizens too closely...
...also lassoed bigger stars, when he wanted them; he knew that marquee names would help raise financing and lure audiences. He would go for the hot new actor: Delon after Rocco and His Brothers, Richard Harris after This Sporting Life, David Hemmings and Vanessa Redgrave in their first bloom for Blowup and later, in 1975, Jack Nicholson for The Passenger...
...that revolution was ancillary. (So was the Blowup rave-up performed by the Yardbirds, including the young Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck.) Artistically, Antonioni was after bigger game, and bagged it. As critic Adriano Apra says on the Criterion edition of Eclipse: "In film each auteur gives us his distinctive perception of the world. Antonioni goes beyond that. He always invents a world of his own." Apra means that literally, especially regarding the director's first two color features...
...company Unocal in 2005. Says Jing Ulrich, JPMorgan's Hong Kong--based head of China equities: "China has a wall of money--a tsunami, really--that is about to hit the rest of the world. In terms of global capital markets, there is just nothing happening that's bigger than this right now." Indeed, JPMorgan figures that if China boosts its national savings 10% a year--a "conservative" estimate, it says--and only 5% of the total leaves China each year, by 2020 China's outbound investment from individuals and corporations alone (not including money from the State Investment...