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...randomization. Sure, the Quad is far, but when you have the shuttle of all shuttles to carry you light as air from place to place, what does it really matter? Just step on in, relax in the climate-controlled interior and thumb your nose at river people as you glide...
...time, House leaders were talking vaguely about a "glide path" toward a balanced budget in seven years. To Budget chairman John Kasich, that meant passing the normal five-year budget in a form that would simply make credible the idea of wiping out the deficit two years later. When Gingrich suddenly announced in late January that the Republicans would offer a seven-year plan to bring the deficit down to zero, Kasich was stunned. He was, after all, the guy who had to make the numbers...
...that going public would stall their party's momentum in Washington. That can't last. Rising G.O.P. star Christine Whitman of New Jersey, up for re-election in 1997, could be the first to face the consequences. She says she supports the block-grant approach "philosophically" but wants "a glide path that's doable," not the downshift Gingrich has in store, which would take New Jersey from 10% growth to 2% in just 11 months...
...private sale or a public stock offering. Investcorp certainly spends money like a billionaires' bank. An eight-story headquarters in Bahrain (Investcorp House) is complemented not only by the premises on New York's Park Avenue but also by posh offices in London's Mayfair district. White-uniformed butlers glide around serving executives catered gourmet lunches at their desks. Many clients receive annual invitations to conferences like one held in July at New York's Waldorf-Astoria. In 1992, on the occasion of its 10th anniversary, Investcorp threw a lavish party at London's Victoria and Albert Museum. Guests nibbled...
...jazzy, punchy music does create a fluid but vigorous medium on which the actors, many of them ballet dancers, can glide. What the tale has lost in terms of weight, it may have gained in mobility. There's a beautiful wedding fete, for instance, in which even the food takes wing, and an appealingly somber/silly march. Indeed, at times Chronicle looks and sounds positively resuscitative: this colorful show, with its percussive Latin rhythms, could be a tonic for Broadway...