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...staff of Perspective magazine worked hard to publicize a winter showing of "E.T.," parading a "real-life" E.T. around dining halls to heighten interest...
...staff of Perspective magazine worked hard to publicize a winter showing of "E.T.," parading a "real-life" E.T. around dining halls to heighten interest...
Boone encouraged students to come out eventually, however, and to be open about their sexual orientation. Boone said he believes the closeted nature of homosexuality may heighten homophobia...
...many ways, Rudy and Hillary will be battling each other on the same centrist policy terrain. It will heighten the chance that the campaign will turn on personal politics--who gets uglier, and more rattled, in the charge and countercharge of a New York election. Giuliani won't hesitate to go negative. In 1997 he accused his overmatched opponent, Ruth Messinger, of giving a party in the 1970s for an Attica prison inmate; suggested she supported X-rated video stores; and all but blamed her for the Brooklyn Dodgers' 1957 move to Los Angeles. But Giuliani could pay a price...
...relies on a stock-market bubble that will not continue indefinitely to defy both the law of gravity and economic rationality. Growth prospects have dramatically lessened in Europe, sweeping away any hope of a significant reduction in the still unacceptably high levels of unemployment. This has the potential to heighten tensions between the imperatives of economic national policies and the policy criteria set by the European central bank. Such tensions will put to the test the stability of the Continent's new currency, the euro, earlier than expected...