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...soon as the Asian crisis began, many economists expected that it would boost the U.S. trade deficit. Countries hit by the crunch are less able to buy U.S. goods and more hard-pressed to sell their own goods; as the U.S. economy was the strongest in the world, it appeared to be the importer of last resort, buying goods when no other economy could afford them. The biggest danger from the crisis, it was predicted, was that the U.S. might refuse to play this role, erecting barriers against world trade, knocking out the supports from the global economy and repeating...
With their deadlines rapidly approaching, it's crunch time for seniors writing theses. But even as thesis season reaches its climax, with History and Literature theses due last Monday and most departments' due dates before spring break, seniors are adding color to their lives--with highlighters and color-coded page tabs...
With their deadlines rapidly approaching, it’s crunch time for senior writing theses. But even as thesis season reaches its climax with History and Literature theses due last Monday and most departments' due dates before spring break, seniors are adding color to their lives--with highlighters and color-coded page tabs...
...another set of difficult choices as he tries to grind the process to a halt without angering G.O.P. Senators who feel the prosecution has been slighted. Rather than calling the 15 witnesses the managers wanted, the prosecutors were limited to what Henry Hyde called a "pitiful three." In the crunch, Betty Currie was dropped from the list in exchange for White House aide Sidney Blumenthal. Though calling Currie was once thought to be central to proving the obstruction case, some managers decided the spectacle of 13 white men questioning one middle-aged African-American woman would not help their cause...
Seinfeld parodied Peterman--the tribute, perhaps, of one insubstantial '90s style to another. Illusion is everything, self-deception is indispensable, and Peterman works behind a scrim of pastness, sometimes hilarious but curiously sweet nonetheless. Peterman sells interesting and fairly good-quality stuff (though he lately got caught in a crunch of high inventory, debt and cash-flow problems). The danger, of course, is that you may get the thing in the mail and try it on (a Sherlock Holmes hat or cape, say, or one of those flouncy, too-much-by-half fin-de-siecle velvet gowns: "We drank Veuve...