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...Jones case dismissal. It was only when McMillan's husband, Bill, got involved in negotiations that a deal was brokered. Indeed, it came as a surprise to many that a settlement could be reached at all in the wake of midterm elections that put the White House in a buoyant mood. As an encore, perhaps the McMillans can drum up a book deal for their impoverished client...
...survey of 75 of the council's 300 CEOs showed that 95% expected the global downturn to have some negative effect on their earnings. More telling, 64% were planning cost-cutting measures that included less hiring, and 57% expected to reduce capital spending significantly. Yet there was a buoyant sense that the U.S. would ride it out. "I don't think the economy is capable of having a deep downturn now if monetary and fiscal policies remain sound," says John Snow, chairman and CEO of transport giant CSX Corp., echoing the sentiments of many of his peers. "There...
...cast of O, the beautifully buoyant Cirque du Soleil water extravaganza at the Bellagio, wore circus motley: urchin's togs, ballerina gowns, penguin suits and the odd clown nose. Last week's opening-night audience, though, was outfitted in formal evening wear--1,800 exponents of money and glamour. It was just the sort of crowd Steve Wynn would like to see at his new hotel every night. So would the other high-rolling master builders in this high-desert fantasyland. Like an aging chorine who learns a little French and buys a Chanel frock in hopes of attracting...
...business starmaking in Nothing Special and the falseness of big-city life in That Says It All. It's no surprise that he intends to avoid being trapped in lightweight pop: he's 28 and wants a long career. But Humming's dark overhang of melancholy and shortage of buoyant tunes make this just a good album, when there may have been a great one waiting just one hook away...
...being launched. "It was a moment of tremendous anxiety," Serra wrote in 1988, "as the oiler rattled, swayed, tipped and bounced into the sea, half submerged, to then raise and lift itself and find its balance. The ship went through a transformation from an enormous obdurate weight to a buoyant structure, free, afloat and adrift. All the raw material that I needed is contained in the reserve of this memory, which has become a recurrent dream." His "awe and wonder" at this sight is recapitulated, more strongly than ever before in his work, in the Torqued Ellipses...