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...budge unless more pressure is applied," says TIME correspondent William Dowell ? which puts the situation back to where it was in November, except that diplomacy will have been shown to have failed. "There's a massing of military force in the Gulf right now, enough to make Saddam blink," says Dowell. "If he doesn't back down, there will be a strong argument for using...
Business Bytes No Friday blues this week as Wall Street took the handoff from buoyant Asian markets and ran all day ? at least until a quarter to four, when it shed 40 in an eye-blink ? to ring out 60 to the happy side. Sweep up the slips with the FORTUNE Business Report. Get the numbers by index or stock-by-stock
...effect of compressing time. Echoes of a Native Land is not a particularly quick read. The narrative reflects research and experience spanning 17 years of the author's life. Yet by not relating the past in chronological order, Schmemann is able to condense 200 years of history into the blink of an eye. As a whole, this compressed history expresses a sense of waste and of sadness for communism's unfortunate effects on Russia's fate and for the country's difficulties in its present attempts at democracy...
...impose a structure on something. I know I can't do that because I was an English major--I've written papers for years and I'm just not good at it. It drives me nuts--I pull my hair out in front of the computer watching the cursor blink...
...sorts, in the form of a slit on her chest. She glares predatorily at everyone, a stern mother who has had it with you kids since she's got the biggest problem child of all, who moves rapidly from the terrible two's to higher body counts in the blink of an eye. Even the space ship feels cowed enough to be called "Father," knowing not to upstage Weaver inadvertently with silly space ship name conventions...