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Besides acting as a damper on business, the war and recession have shifted fortunes from one industry to another. The travel business's loss, for example, is the telephone industry's gain. Video conferencing and faxing are booming as executives shift to meeting electronically instead of in person. Since the war started, AT&T's video-conferencing traffic has doubled, while U.S. Sprint's has tripled...
...think the lights and the music are pretty and I certainly can't complain about the presents. And I like the sense of excitement on campus, so I hate to say anything to put a damper on the holiday cheer. But I feel compelled to point out the fact that not everyone at Harvard celebrates Christmas...
Visions of sugar plums aren't the only things dancing in the minds of Harvard students these days, as many say worries about war are putting a damper on their usual holiday cheer...
...this weekend, even they couldn't put a damper on Holworthy and Thayer...
...weeks before the Malta meeting, White House aides -- and Bush himself -- had been putting a damper on expectations. But the President was determined all the while to arrive with proposals that would interest the Soviets and encourage the success of their reforms without turning the meeting into a wholesale renegotiation of the postwar order. Such a deal would be futile in any case. At Yalta in 1945 the victorious Allies could draw lines at will upon war-ravaged Europe. Now the ability of both superpowers to dictate events has been sharply circumscribed...