Word: bumpers
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...former U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, believes that to rank the papabili it's important to "get their frequent-flyer reports." A lifelong Catholic, Flynn is both idealistic and realistic about the undeclared campaign for Pope. "It's the Holy Spirit, but you have to have your bumper stickers ready," he says...
Maybe this year's Red Sox edition contains role players who can provide the small intangibles. Perhaps Lou Merloni has a game-winning home run in him. Maybe Trot Nixon will cause "Nixon's the One" bumper stickers to be distributed throughout Boston. I think if you rearrange the letters in Izzy Alcantara, you might be able to spell "sweet revenge" (or, "suck it, Boston media...
...build a limited missile shield, but the Bush Administration has said bluntly that while it's willing to talk over the details, its mind is made up. Disputes are looming about how to rejigger sanctions against Iraq and over which countries should next get into nato. There's a bumper crop of noisy trade issues too, and all of them tread on sensitive domestic toes: bananas, R and D subsidies for Boeing and Airbus, the genetically modified grub Americans are happy to swallow but Europeans denounce as "Frankenfood...
...promised right from the start that there would be no Wednesdays with Morrie. It wasn't going to be a franchise. Although there have been many, many publishers who would love [to publish a sequel]. I've turned down bumper stickers. I've turned down day planners. I've turned down calendars. Bracelets. Refrigerator magnets. I've said no to everything, because this was never supposed to be a commercial endeavor. Somebody came to me last night and said they'd like to do a cruise based on Tuesdays with Morrie. You've got the wrong guy. It's just...
...following the formula. But that would also limit the good he could do. Taylor rules, many economists say, don't work because they are reactive. They don't move rates until inflation picks up. It's like not hitting your brakes until you touch the other guy's bumper. Greenspan's rate cut in August 1998 probably saved the world from financial meltdown. Taylor's rules would have precluded the move. It's seductive to think we could build a Greenspan box, a computer to out-Alan Alan. But monetary policy can't be made in a vacuum...