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...phone. He grimaced. "A quality problem--mistake of some sort." Other Pentagon officials pledged to work even harder to make the next test, set for the fall, a success. But the failure of two proven technologies in a single test--the interceptor basically never turned itself on--will probably dampen any Clinton ardor for an operational system by 2005. Congressional zeal for the shield, however, is irrepressible...
This year the macarena's not going to cut it; Al Gore had better work on his salsa moves. With the Cuban-American political leadership already enraged at the administration over the Elian Gonzalez case, Wednesday's raid on protesters at a Navy base in Vieques could certainly dampen Puerto Rican enthusiasm for getting out the Gore vote. U.S. marshals and FBI agents began in the early hours arresting protesters who're trying to stop the U.S. Navy from reopening its bombing range on the island, among them nuns, priests, labor leaders and U.S. congresspeople from Illinois and New York...
...outlook for bank stocks couldn't be any uglier. We're a lock for higher short-term interest rates when the Fed meets March 21, and a rate boost or two after that seems likely before summer. Rising short-term rates squeeze bank profit margins and, more important, dampen loan demand. That's why bank stocks have been crashing faster than your favorite ATM, shedding 40% of their value since interest rates started climbing rapidly more than a year...
Even the large size of the House does not dampen the community feeling...
HANOVER, N.H.—With the Big Green already in possession of the league title, the Harvard women's basketball travelled north looking to dampen the looming Dartmouth victory party...