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Courtis was concerned that overall Japanese corporate investment in high tech is falling sharply behind that in the U.S. The country's consumer spending is still trending sharply down, and demographic forces are already starting to bite. In 1998, Courtis pointed out, more Japanese retirees withdrew funds from the pension system than there were workers contributing to it. "It would be really unwise to underestimate the level of political turmoil possible as Japan reforms," he warned...
...stomach it. He was acting out of principled thinking. But whatever one's reasons, total constancy to the ideal is unrealistic. A Few Good Men was about the potential inhumanity of too much Semper Fi. Even dogs, to whom we assign unswerving devotion, will, because they are dogs, bite the hands that feed them. (Semper Fido...
...them third in popularity among mammals, trailing cats (55 million) and dogs (50 million). Adult ferrets weigh between 1 1/2 lbs. and 3 lbs., perfect for compact living spaces, and the species' record of good behavior--according to the Animal Health Institute, ferrets are 200 times less likely to bite than dogs--makes them ideal first pets. Then there's the ferret's hip intellectual profile. "They're not pack animals," says Shefferman, "and they don't learn by rote, like dogs. They think creatively. They actually need intellectual stimulation." Boeing once used ferrets in aircraft assembly to run wiring...
...until such wonders come to pass, St. Valentine's Day can bite...
...sessions and then incorporated into the evening events. "A click more on Clinton," says Murphy in South Carolina, after a day's worth of events in which McCain has already turned up his bashing of the Administration. As the expected attacks come from Bush, aides warn McCain not to bite. "Let us handle him," says Murphy. McCain must stay presidential, above the fracas...