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...officials said increasing taxes are not on the horizon. "We don't have any way of raising $4.5 million dollars," Rafferty says...
...Judith's head ribbon seem blown by an actual wind. And the undercurrent of strangeness is increased by the way Mantegna reduces Holofernes to two anatomical fragments: his head, which the avenging Jewess is placing in a bag, and the sole of his foot, which sticks up above the horizon of the bed end. Mantegna had a liking for feet -- the same dead soles confront your eye in the most famous of his images, The Lamentation over the Dead Christ. His willingness to emphasize single parts of the body in this weirdly iconic way is a reminder that, like...
...executives have had a tremendous downturn in their earnings for the past two years. We did not pay any bonuses at GM last year, and the way earnings are headed I can't see any bonus on the horizon this year either. But I don't really feel sorry for any Japanese chief executive. He enjoys a very good life-style. I'll be happy to exchange pay with any Japanese...
...have begun with the stock market crash of 1987, which served as an early-warning system for the harsher realities that followed. Tycoons were brought low, and speculative bubbles were burst in everything from real estate to artworks. A junkyard of bad debt and bankruptcies stretched to the horizon. The gulf war heightened the crisis atmosphere and further trivialized the pursuit of the latest fashions in consumer products. There was a faint echo of the '40s: "Don't you know there's a war on, buddy?" While some questioned the battle's goals, for the first time in years many...
...bravery of a Boris Yeltsin, who struggled to free a society from seven decades of iron ideology. But always behind the action is an idea, a passionate sense of what is eternal in human nature and % also of what is coming but as yet unseen, just over the horizon...