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...something that most economists would agree. You don't enact significant taxes in the midst of a recession, particularly when there is no horizon on the recession," Finneran said in an interview...
...except himself -- tends to produce a depressing civic stupidity. Each trait has about it the immobility of addiction. Victims become addicted to being victims: they derive identity, innocence and a kind of devious power from sheer, defaulting helplessness. On the other side, the candlesnuffers of behavioral and political correctness enact their paradox, accomplishing intolerance in the name of tolerance, regimentation in the name of betterment...
...easy to see why. Tall and leggy, she seems to have double-jointed hips -- her ordinary kick is stopped only by her ear. Onstage she seems radiantly alone. This Swan Queen may be the Prince's fantasy; she mostly ignores him and certainly does not need him to enact her own doomed fate. Guillem holds the stage with mesmeric authority. No romance for her, Tchaikovsky notwithstanding. Guillem is a modern heroine who could perform the role persuasively in a leotard. In fact, theater artist Robert Wilson is only semispoofing when he talks of a Swan Lake in which she would...
...protection to intellectual property. Realizing that such laxness will exclude them from much world trade as well as hobble native industries, nations everywhere are revising laws covering patents, copyrights and trade names. Malaysia, Egypt, China, Turkey, Brazil and even the Soviet Union have all recently announced plans either to enact new laws or beef up existing safeguards. In an effort to win U.S. congressional support for a proposed free-trade pact, Mexico last month revealed plans to double the life of trademark licenses to 10 years and extend patent protection for the first time to such products as pharmaceuticals...
What Dinkins calls "doomsday" comes on May 25. If by that date New York State's legislature does not enact a budget, which is already seven weeks late, the city will have no operating funds and its credit rating will probably be dropped below the A- currently given by Standard & Poor's. That could add millions of dollars to the city's interest payments when $600 million in bonds goes on the market June...