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They already knew that a star of about the sun's mass would collapse after its nuclear fires died out and shrink to an earth-size object called a white dwarf. But what would happen if the dying star were significantly larger than the middling-size...
...people that can judge an industry the best are those that are in the industry. But I would at this point want to emphasize that I think the micro focus here is quite misplaced. If you look at the automobile industry, the macroeconomic effects seem to me to dwarf whatever it is that's going on with G.M. and Toyota. If you look at what has happened to the demand for total car sales, you ask how much of the decline in US car sales is traceable to foreign penetration. The answer is that much more of the decline...
...Property Capital Trust has earned its backers a 35.4 percent annual compounded return; measured since 1974, the figure is still an admirable 19.2 percent. Such returns far outstrip the 10 to 12 percent Harvard could expect to receive from the most attractive bonds, and, excepting the recent take off, dwarf all stock market indices...
...theater as a stage proves doubly successful in underlining another theme of the play: The difficulty or absence of communication between men and women. Not only does the size of the theater dwarf and separate the characters (Rauch, however, uses the space very evenly), but the rows of seats provide frustrating barriers between them. Characters, unable to make themselves heard or understood, race down aisles, violently pushing up the seats in their frustration. Not only does this express what words cannot, but it builds a frenzy of tension and frustration. In one particularly evocative scene. Nina and Constantine--reunited after...
Windsor is a very large man who publishes a newspaper in Chapel Hill with the assistance of a dwarf, whom Windsor calls his bodyguard. The newspaper is called the Landmark, and it is published higgledy-piggledy. Sometimes it is a weekly, and sometimes it is a biweekly, and sometimes it is just, well, tardy. It is always popular, however, and whether the press run is 4,600, as it was for the first issue last June 10, or 20,000, as it was for the most recent issue, there are precious few copies, if any, left over at the office...