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...roundly-lauded artists—but her unremitting earnestness ultimately make her essays a chore to read. One wonders not just at Sontag’s artistic voracity, but at her boneheaded inability to crack wise now and then, or to liven her discussion with even the slightest dip into the troughs of low culture. Sontag has long been mocked and feared for her imposing figure, and nowhere do we see the intensity of her sternness than in an essay collection like this. It’s not her excessively dour prose style, but rather the cumulative effect of dozens...
Fate has whacked the corps of flight attendants twice: first with the Sept. 11 murders, then with deep layoffs planned because of the dip in travel. American's flight attendants have been working without a contract for 2 1/2 years; just recently, they voted a new agreement into place. Some of those brave enough to stay at work will not be allowed...
...billion in fiscal stimulus from Congress, as many rate cuts as it takes from the Fed, the long-awaited upturn in the business cycle that was due to come this summer, then this fall, then this winter before Sept. 11 happened. Because Sept. 11 did happen, the dip will be deeper, but the comeback will be quicker. Unemployment will peak around, say, 6 percent in the spring, a lagging indicator as always, and by late summertime 2002 the living will be easy all over again...
...Nazis and found that in 25 of those cases, an initial market decline turned to solid gains within six months. The median initial decline in the Dow was 4.6%, followed by a rally of 12.1%. So maybe it's time to relearn an old lesson: Buy the dip. It hasn't worked lately. But now that it's no longer popular, it just might be smart...
...second item on the agenda was money. There would be no arguments: A truce had been called in the bitter political war over dipping into the hundreds of billions of dollars piling up in the Social Security surplus. They'd dip into the fund. The men huddled in Hastert's office debated how much would be needed. The White House already had told Congress it wanted $20 billion to help rebuild the damaged Pentagon, deal with the New York catastrophe and bolster security. But $20 billion might not be enough, one of the leaders said. "You're probably right," Lott...