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...CREDIT CARDS/DEBTS Get rid of them. That's standard advice, and it's not easy to follow. But you don't want to enter a period of weak pay increases and diminished job security with hard-to-afford debt. Pay down high-rate debt first, and because rates should decline, pay fixed-rate debt ahead of floating-rate debt. Cash is king. You will get a better deal on things like cars and major appliances as manufacturers lure back customers. Keep cash equal to at least three months' expenses if you can. That's less important when you're debt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recession Proof | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

...used by less than one-tenth of the voters in America. There are few complaints, and the prospect of a nationwide network of Automatic Voting Machines, with the flashing lights and soothing blips that Americans understand, is now in vogue: See your ballots. Pick your candidates. Confirm. Press Enter. Maybe they print out receipts in case the software crashes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Year's Voting Resolution? | 12/24/2000 | See Source »

...some Tuesday soon, we'll all stroll into spacious well-attended polling places, after a nice breakfast with the family, talking politics, and swipe our voter-ID card and blip in our candidates and press enter, and go home feeling confident our vote's been cast, whistling a happy tune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Year's Voting Resolution? | 12/24/2000 | See Source »

...Enter Friday's other picks. Bush announced in the morning that John Ashcroft, the Missouri senator who lost in November at the hands of Mel Carnahan's ghost, will be attorney general. Ashcroft is a staunch and pious down-the-line social conservative whom Democrats really seem to despise - he beats out Montana governor Marc Racicot, whom the right didn't like, and Oklahoma governor Frank Keating, a former FBI man whom they loved but is back among the also-rans for some reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: So Far, No Cabinet Calamities | 12/21/2000 | See Source »

...EAST-WEST After World War II, a Russian-born doctor and his French wife accept an invitation to help rebuild the U.S.S.R.--and enter into decades of police-state agony. Director Regis Wargnier's film is a great, gray epic of despair and survival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema | 12/18/2000 | See Source »

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