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Furnishing the new room for less may mean comparison shopping, but a trip outside of the Square affords mounting savings. The basic nylon bean-bag chair, a staple of dorm decor, sells for $54 at Urban Outfitters, but those willing to stop by Economy Hardware can get an almost identical bag for $14 less. Generally, the larger the item--from futon to area rug--the greater the savings...
Wolf's work appeared to have paid off, as she attracted 54.7 percent of the electorate, 900 more votes than Galluccio. By comparison, in their 1996 match-up her margin of victory was 89 votes...
...into the world's hot spots. It seems that in flight, the hulking 300-ton plane kicks up a lot of turbulence. Such swirling atmospheric eddies can entangle soldiers in their parachute lines, collapse their chutes or hurl airborne paratroopers dangerously into one another. The Globemaster suffers particularly in comparison with its predecessor. A fleet of older C-141's can fly over a drop zone and unload a brigade of 3,000 paratroopers in as little as 19 minutes, with each group of three C-141's separated by 8,000 feet. Not only does that allow...
...wanted -- were unable to adapt to a market in which consumers had a choice. "Much of the country has lived, literally, without money for years," says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. "The meltdown in Moscow is simply bringing it into line with the rest of Russia." By comparison, consider China's transition to capitalism: The Communists never relinquished tight political control but transformed its manufacturing sector into a producer of goods -- Nike, the Gap and much more --- that Western consumers want to buy. (Name one big-brand-name product that's made in Russia...
...full day but allows them to leave early if they have finished their daily quota. GM and the U.A.W. also like to pretend that painful strikes are a necessary evil in building a world-class car company. But the pain of this strike will be mild by comparison if the company fails to resolve its deeper problems...