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...camera, Giugiaro looked beyond styling to make the most of the camera's improved technology. The motor drive attaches to the bottom of the camera, providing a low center of gravity that offsets the weight of a projecting lens. In addition, the comfortable hand grip is constructed in such a way as to permit stable one-hand operation...
MUCH OF THE neoliberal program, of course, is not new. It traces its roots to the Great Society and New Deal proposals that defined an historical mission for the Democratic party--and which, carried to wasteful extremes, cost the Democrats their grip on the national government in 1980. But in the hands of the Harts and Bradleys and Wirths, the concepts have a new vitality and pragmatism. Indeed, the young Democrats combine a calm, rational approach to America's needs and fears, with the compassion and concern for equality of opportunity that have long been the province of their party...
During the hour-long ride to Rockport. DiPietro sat with Hussain in the backseat of the car. She said that he kept a strong grip on her the entire time, while he testified that she sat quietly in his lap and at one time even kissed his neck...
Flashes of outright seriousness do surface from time to time, but they slip away too quickly to allow a firm grip--which is very likely all for the best. Dan Rice, from all accounts, was a sunbeam; by the play's end he is already half sunk in twilight, dimmed by the onslaught of "modern contrivances" and the newborn industrial mentality. Try to portray a sunbeam a hundred and twenty years later and you may get a gleam of warmth: some charming laughs, perhaps; and, in the end, a confused sense of pleasure and a done of genuine perplexity...
...surging interest rates were caused in part by the Federal Reserve Board's tight grip on the money supply, a policy designed to bring down inflation. But there is little agreement about other causes. Officials of the Fed blame ballooning budget deficits for kindling more fears about inflation and thus keeping interest rates high. Administration officials complain that the Fed's erratic control of growth in the money supply scared lenders into keeping interest rates high. Whatever the cause, most economists now agree that the unemployment rate will gradually rise into the summer, perhaps hitting 10%, before beginning...