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This Washington cross fire does not greatly faze O'Neil or interest us. This is not merely because we know that flunking her out of the program would be an intolerable act of political incorrectness. Or because we have by this time acquired such a powerful rooting interest in her securing the right to equal-opportunity maltreatment. It is because the movies have taught us over the years that those who gut out pain for lengthy periods of time are always rewarded, in the end, with inspiring triumphs over their tormentors...
Even if such long odds don't faze you, consider the latest warning shot: stratospheric P/E ratios. Stock prices relative to earnings are the highest they have ever been, according to the research firm I.B.E.S. The average stock trades at nearly 19 times its projected earnings per share over the next 12 months. The previous high was 17, in the early 1960s, a period much like today: low inflation, low interest rates, strong profits. Coca-Cola, to name one, trades at 36 times the earnings Wall Street expects it to enjoy in 1998. Coke is a great company...
...never been one to let a situation faze him, even when Debbie Allen, star of "Fame" and director of "A Different World," was sitting in the audience...
...Professor of Comparitive Literature James L. Kugel was interrupted by multiple fire alarms, which had the unpleasant side effect of cutting off the P.A. system in the theater. Luckily an old portable amp was brought out and the lecture continued. Later Kugel explained why events like this don't faze him anymore...
...less shouted my way through until it left. It was not long before I discovered that the garbage collectors of New Haven made this particular stop regularly every Monday morning at the same time. By the end of that semester, noise or other little disturbances really didn't faze me--well, within reason--and so it is to this...