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...fell and died while working the fields, and remembers "Pop's dead eyes looking at [him]." He thinks of the ancient river that flowed over his land before him or his tools and "can almost feel the cold waters and the tickling the trilobiters make when they crawl," and he stays...
...minutes." Jack started panicking--he'd counted on his dead-end row of carrels being dark, but a graduate student was still engrossed in work four carrels away, and there was an overhead light that stayed obstinately on with no switch in sight. Time moved at a crawl, especially since he had incautiously put his head down directly on top of his watchband...
...Schnair, bleeding from a gash in his head, to a narrow cubbyhole beneath the platform out of the way of the wheels. The train began moving, but then screeched to a halt when a screaming bystander implored the conductor to stop the train. Andrews and Schnair huddled in the crawl space until the power was cut off and they could be hoisted to safety...
Several encouraging economic trends have sparked and sustained the rally, which has pushed the Dow up by an astounding 275 points (35%) since mid-August. Inflation slowed to an annual rate of only 2.4% in September, a crawl by comparison with the 8.9% pace of last year. Because prices are rising less rapidly and the Federal Reserve Board has eased its monetary policy, interest rates have dropped sharply in the past three months. The bench-mark prime rate charged for corporate loans, for example, has dipped at some banks to 11.5%, from 16% in July. Investors are increasingly confident that...
...mistress." Whether or not she was more than a mistress, he appears to have been the master. During sworn pretrial testimony, Morgan claimed that Bloomingdale would bind several women with his neckties, beat them with a belt and "stand there and watch the girls get on the floor and crawl ... he'd have these girls crawl on the floor, and he'd sit on their back and drool, okay?" The judge also dismissed Morgan's $5 million claim against Betsy Bloomingdale. Morgan's attorney will probably appeal. "It really is an ugly mess," said Morgan, "more...