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...their bank account each month, finally questioned her this week: “What in the world have you been spending all this money on? Alcohol?” Thinking quickly, McDermott confirmed their worst suspicions, which were “way less sketchy than the painkiller and cheese-dip reality.” To prove her status as an alcohol aficionado, McDermott told her parents, “I’ve been buying a lot of my favorite, um, tequila...Smirnoff, uh, Ice?...
...Greenspan and every other economist has pronounced the economy to be pulling out of its whatever-it-was and headed back into boom times, the kind of recovery we get in 2002 - a fast-and-furious V-shape, a slow and grudging L, or worst of all, a double-dip W - depends on how much consumers can improve on their 2001 performance. And the worry is that after spending to beat the terrorists, shoppers have left themselves a very tough act to follow...
...Five spoons dip into the pot, but how many spoonfuls are there?" mused a caviar exporter quoted by an official of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, known as CITES. Holding those spoons as they divide the Caspian's wild sturgeon with Iran are Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. "In a region where fish stocks were once a carefully guarded state secret, and where there is still no comprehensive political agreement over how to share the Caspian Sea and its resources, this breakthrough on sturgeon management marks a dramatic step toward transparency and cooperation," says Jim Armstrong, deputy...
...than its nearest competitor spending a few extra dollars isn’t likely to threaten its position at the top. The doomsayers, on the other hand, worry about saving Harvard’s endowment for the proverbial rainy day when a cloudy economic climate will demand that Harvard dip into its stash. But, if Harvard doesn’t think that it’s raining now, as the nation feels the strain of the first recession in a decade, then it is doubtful that Harvard ever will. Today, when middle class families could use a break...
...Arabs were dead," says another mujahid who had been in the convoy that morning. But even this miserable ground had come at a price; a handful of government soldiers were killed and, according to the mujahid, so was one American. "He died right here," he says standing in a dip in the road...