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DOWNTOWN DAYTON MAY NOT BE quite dead yet, but by dusk Ohio's sixth largest city is pretty much out cold for the night. With office vacancies at 22%, the evening rush hour is largely a function of urgency rather than congestion: nobody wants to be caught downtown after dark. By 6 Elder-Beerman, the last big department store since Lazarus closed its doors in January, is nearly empty. Outside a few remaining stragglers hurry to catch buses for the outlying suburbs and strip malls, leaving behind an uneasy mix of panhandlers, police and security guards. The only other substantial...
...decision to send Secretary of Transportation Andrew Card to Florida to mastermind relief efforts suggested that even he didn't think FEMA was up to the job. Florida's senior Senator urges a rethinking of military involvement. "In the post-cold war era, this could be an important new function for the military," says Democrat Bob Graham, "not something done after hours, but as an ongoing significant part of the military task...
...function of this book is not that of a guide to good usage or a & dictionary, though it is a necessary complement to both. Despite its peculiar shortcomings, it remains a sterling reference tool and deserves a bravo!, bravissimo!, well done!, ole! (Sp), bene! (Ital), hear, hear!, aha!; hurrah!; good!, fine!, excellent!, whizzo! (Brit), great!, beautiful!, swell!, good for you!, good enough!, not bad!, now you're talking!; way to go, attaboy!, attababy!, attagirl!, attagal!, good boy!, good girl!; that's the idea!, that's the ticket!; encore!, bis!, take a bow!, three cheers!, one cheer more!, congratulations...
...approach the family-values question, it may be necessary to remember the formula of F. Scott Fitzgerald: he said the sign of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to retain two mutually contradictory ideas in the mind at the same time and still be able to function. The two mutually contradictory but simultaneously valid ideas involved here are these...
...have affected him much as loss of energy affects a failing star. The bright and unfocused young man described in the film by witnesses to his early days has in effect collapsed in upon himself, his spirit concentrating on the one small area of his body that continues to function perfectly -- his brain. His thought has achieved a remarkable density, and he has become a singularity almost as unimaginable as the astrophysical world he so easily imagines...