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...those who depend on investments in certificates of deposit might see their incomes drop as interest rates fall. But they could take heart from realizing that they were helping their children and children's children. "People have to make short-term, identifiable sacrifices in exchange for the promise of distant, diffuse and amorphous benefits of a stronger, healthier economy," says Martha Phillips of the Concord Coalition, an antideficit group. "It's a big leap of faith, and what's amazing to me is how many people are willing to make...
...among businesses, for instance, News Corp. has little in the way of business information services to offer them. For Murdoch, the most important advantage of MCI's already established presence on the Internet is the second chance it offers to his flagging on-line service, Delphi. It ranks a distant fourth behind America Online, CompuServe and Prodigy. That could change fast if MCI promoted Delphi to its 16 million residential customers...
...town was physically untouched by the war until early 1945, when we began hearing the distant thunder of artillery from the eastern front. In February, during the devastating Allied air raids against Dresden, 100 km away, we saw the night skies light up to the northwest. The big bomber streams, gatherings of silvery dots against the sky, routinely rumbled past as we watched from the backyard; air-raid sirens sounded, but the planes were not targeting a little town of no industrial or military significance. For me and my neighborhood friends, the most dramatic exposure to reality came...
...with the judges they encounter.'' But Thomas Hafemeister of the National Center for State Courts, who studies jury stress, believes Ito has been doing the right thing to avoid a total meltdown. "He's trying to stay in touch with the jurors,'' Hafemeister says. "If you're formal, distant and removed, that increases the stress levels. It's almost inevitable that you would have trouble with the jury here, with the length of the trial, the extreme public attention and the sequestration...
Princeton--capturing the Cup for only the second time in 34 years--clocked in at 5:37.50, more than two seconds better than Harvard's 5:39.36 MIT placed a distant third...