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...This private-sector deficit is enormous," he says. People feel flush enough, due to their soaring stock portfolios, to keep buying consumer goods on credit--the so-called "wealth effect." But a drop in the Dow Jones index or some other shock could quickly erase those paper gains and choke off the spending boom. So while the Clinton Administration is touting consumption-driven growth, Dresdner Bank's Ernst-Moritz Lipp is critical. "We shouldn't praise as an important development something that is due to an unsustainably low savings rate driven, in turn, by an asset-price bubble," he says...
...fear. She tugs at her gold necklace, shifts in her seat, slams down cup after cup of black coffee. She gets this way when she has to tell a stranger why she can't sleep at night, why she and her husband have been fighting, why she can't choke down even half her meal when she goes to a nice restaurant. Two decades ago, when Cindy (a pseudonym) was in college, a man beat and raped her. Devastated and uncertain, she had the baby but surrendered the girl for adoption...
...Still leading by three with ten minutes to go, somewhere the Harvard subconscious recalled its first meeting with the Big Red this season: leading 5-1 at Lynah Rink, the Crimson barely Heimliched a serious choke situation, hanging on only...
WASHINGTON: After making the Senate jury choke down three hours of David Kendall's lawyering, the White House figured to serve Dale Bumpers as dessert. But the ex-Arkansas senator and current Clinton buddy did even better than that. For the first time in this plodding impeachment trial, listeners were treated to a speech that was worthy of history -- not to mention a heck of a defense for the President. "He was kind of the antidote to the legal arguments," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "He was well-regarded as a senator, and he was a friend...
...Good Time Charlie Merrill," his friends called him--he had the unconscious expectation that Great Men always have: that he should be at the center of any orbit he entered. And so he was. As his son once wrote, "Whatever he decided to serve, the victim was meant to choke it down and be grateful...