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...representative centimillionaire in a neutral country like Switzerland or Singapore, sitting down to figure out where to put his last $10 million, is saying, 'The U.S. looks pretty good.'" So the dollars spilled abroad by the trade deficit come right back in the form of investment, and the buck stays strong...
...have started marking off the days on the calendar, like a convict, waiting for release in early November. This election campaign is going to end. But how do we get through the intervening weeks? Buck up! We've come this far. I admit I think wistfully from time to time about Alan Keyes. Where is he now that we need him? Where is his mosh pit? With Wen Ho Lee back home, can't we hear again from Keyes about how racial profiling is essential to law enforcement...
...buck stops there...
...that?s now for the newcomer to figure out: Clinton, for his part, managed to shed the debate?s ugliness with his usual aplomb - sounding utterly reasonable and extremely diplomatic as he passed the buck. And it?s fitting, somehow, that the decision made was not to make a decision. This is the beginning of the end of Clintonian international relations, after all, and as if on cue, history has started playing the President out the door...
...cassette, which replaced the LP, which replaced the 78--each successive format presenting an opportunity to sell the public something it already owned), and now it's under threat from a bunch of 22-year-old hackers. These days, if the companies are going to make an opportunistic buck, they've got to reach a little further than they did in the past...