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...then there was Friday?s report that growth for April-May-June was a pale 0.7 percent, which could have been worse - it could have been negative 0.7 percent, the official signal of a recession - but it sure as hell could have been better. Not only are corporate earnings glum and corporate profits glummer, corporate spending - the capital investment that makes the economy grow sustainably - was non-existent...
...does anyone really want to take this plunge? AOL, for one, is salivating over a combination (minority-owned for tax purposes but effectively controlled by the Dulles boys) that would create a cable behemoth with some 25 million subscribers, 3 million high-speed Internet-access customers, and a hell of a lot of train tracks for all that content (yours truly included). How big a behemoth? Comcast?s 8.5 million subs would be a very distant second...
...this is the bust," Gramm said, "the boom was sure as hell worth...
...savannah but in an environment with some trees, dense shrubbery and a bit of grass. "And if you're moving into more open country with grasslands and bushes and things like this, and eating a lot of fruits and berries coming off low bushes, there is a hell of an advantage to be able to reach higher. That's why the gerenuk [a type of antelope] evolved its long neck and stands on its hind legs, and why the giraffe evolved its long neck. There's strong pressure to be able to reach a wider range of levels...
...Jamil Hamad: Moderates now are in a very difficult situation - how could you explain your moderate ideals when the Israelis are making the lives of the ordinary Palestinians hell? We are not talking about politics, about border disputes and negotiations; we are talking about daily lives. The Israelis are doing a great damage to their reputation by punishing the Palestinians to their bones. So there is no room for moderation in such situations, because the Israelis are not giving the ordinary man and woman on the street any chance to say to him/herself "hey, this is a dispute between Arafat...