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...Still, optimists point out that most of the companies going public are solid operations with proven track records, state backing, and large market shares in well-understood industries?unlike shaky Internet start-ups. The dotcoms "were selling a concept, but most of the companies listing in Hong Kong have a profit," says Kenny Tang, associate director of Tung Tai Securities. What's more, the bullish argument goes, the Chinese economy is growing exponentially, and that should continue to drive mainland stocks higher...
Micky Arison thinks so. Arison is CEO of Carnival Corp., the cruise-industry behemoth that bought the venerable but floundering Cunard Line, which operates the QM2. "The concept of the Queen Mary was the reason for the acquisition," Arison says. Plans to build the big liner were announced within months of Carnival's 1998 takeover of Cunard, and Arison believes he can make $120 million from the QM2 "in a good year...
Desire is complicated. Arousal, by contrast, is pretty straightforward: fill the penile arteries with blood or divert blood to the vagina and clitoris, and you're there. "Once the brain gets turned on--however it gets turned on--it's a relatively simple concept to increase blood flow," says Dr. Alan Altman, a specialist in menopause and sexuality at Harvard Medical School. In men, a chemical that facilitates the flow is vasoactive intestinal polypeptide, a hormone that also directs the expansion and contraction of smooth muscles in the gastrointestinal tract...
...solution and clear out all the muck," says Meredith. Weiner-Davis encourages couples to identify what they want the marriage to look like, then list actions they can take--dinner out once a week, playing tennis or golf together, help with the housework--to achieve those goals. "The concept of real giving is so simple, but it really gets at the heart of how to make a relationship work," says Meredith...
...artful equivocation is an almost impossible concept to explain, but it is easy to demonstrate. Let us begin with the question, “Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived...