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Quarterback Vinny Testaverde and the New York Jets were right to make an appearance at the disaster site in downtown Manhattan to buoy the spirits of the workers there...
Madagascar, with its bright-eyed lemurs and forested hills, has tried hard to buoy its ailing economy by attracting Chinese investment. The nation's free-trade zones are dotted with apparel factories run by Chinese overlords and staffed with Chinese contract laborers. Last year, Madagascar doled out 600 visas to Chinese workers who construct everything from new roads to button-down shirts. Chinese factory owners prefer to ship in their own countrymen because, as one boss put it: "They work harder for less money." Miss Xu hails from Nanjing, the river port from which Zheng He launched his fleet...
Next year, he estimates, the tax cut would make the difference between 2.6% and 3.4% growth. He believes the tax cut would significantly buoy employment and do little to stir inflation. Adds Richard Berner, chief U.S. economist at Morgan Stanley: "These tax cuts are a big deal. The tax-cut train has left the station, and it is clearly going to be stimulative...
...hold her, a girl in Santee is attempting to find the words to buoy the spirits of a brokenhearted friend. In northeast America, we are beginning to dig out of a deep and snow-packed winter and to catch flashes of sunlight. This, I should tell her, is news of gratitude and hope--or the news about Jessica...
Like the Amish in Witness, these Socialists in Gallagher's extended family experience life more fully because they believe so deeply. Devoted readers of the Daily Worker, Stalinists to the end ("the pact with Hitler was a tactic, darling"), they sometimes look ridiculous but steadily buoy Gallagher with a bracing sense of connectedness. As a girl, she thought a portrait of Lenin hanging on the wall was a picture of her grandfather. Her summers at "worker's camp," where the oppressed were celebrated, provide wonderful memories, although political purity was strictly enforced: an extra slice of watermelon to a black...