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...this land of make believe, women who die of unrequited love are doomed to haunt the woods as willis. These unforgiving ghosts flit about from midnight until dawn condemning any man they see to death by continuous dancing. Giselle enters these formidable ranks, but breaks the rules by protecting Albrecht from the willi's wrath. This act of bravery and generosity saves her lover and brings her the reward of eternal peace in the grave...
Most mainstream economists, however, remain convinced that the budget dilemma will not go away. "At some point down the road, these deficits are going to haunt us," says Kenneth Mayland, chief economist of the First Pennsylvania Bank. As the economy expands, rising loan' demands by businesses will collide with Government borrowing. The eventual result, says Economist Henry Kaufman, partner in the Salomon Brothers investment house, could be "an explosion in interest rates." If rates rise, federal borrowing costs will go up and so will the deficit. Thus, many economists argue, large deficits and high interest rates feed each other...
Wyoming has been a favorite haunt of paleontologists for the past century, ever since westering pioneers reported that many vertebrate fossils were almost lying on the ground. Scientists soon discovered why. Roughly 55 million years ago, the Rockies rose violently, while enormous basins formed around Wyoming. Rains washed sediment into the natural bowls, and thousands of animal carcasses were buried and preserved...
...leaf for either the poverty or the ruthlessness of their politics." Founded on a basis of meticulous research, his book is, in the end, an elegy to good intentions ill directed and a cry of conscience on behalf of the 240,000 Kampuchean refugees who continue to haunt the limbo of the border camps...
...repulsively fat and wicked Twin Cities businessman, follows his runaway wife to the Lady Luck Motel in Las Vegas and murders her. In her grave back home in Minnesota, Giselle feels her spirit stir and realizes that she, like the heroine of the ballet Giselle, is destined to haunt her husband. Unfortunately, the escape from her moldering mortal remains requires the simultaneous death of her mother, who wakes up in "a kind of halfway house" to heaven. Mamma has access to a TV set on which she can call up any scene she wishes from her past life;in keeping...