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...birds on a telephone wire, but much of it is new and cheeky: "Sometimes it's funny, this after-hour when/ whatever hasn't happened between us/ hasn't happened again..." As Garrison's book proves, not all good poems are hard poems, and sometimes the lines you can hum are also the lines you can't forget...
Numerically, the forecast for 1998, as seen by members of TIME's Board of Economists and most other predictors, looks ho-hum. Steady but moderate growth in production, profits and wages. Little change in rates of inflation, unemployment and interest. Not bad, not great. Just kind...
...edge of the Scapegoat Wilderness, where the trees sound like a crowd waiting for the curtain to rise. It is a place where a man who hates technology would have plenty of time to practice what the Unabomber preaches. He could listen to the forest rustle and hum, the larches and ponderosa pines hundreds of years old, the tamaracks and the lodgepoles that totter when the wind rubs up against the Continental Divide. What he didn't know was that for the past few weeks, the trees were listening back...
...that's exactly where Grune is headed. After reclaiming his office, he axed three top executives and replaced them with managers who had worked under him previously. On his earlier watch, the company did indeed hum. He dumped unprofitable subsidiaries and added new specialty magazines. He took Digest public in 1990, and in three years revenues shot up, to $2.9 billion from $2 billion. But when he left in 1994, the company's descent had already begun...
...this as the international sign for choking. This sign has been accepted since the signing of the International Act for Choking Recognition in 1834 and is used in every country in the world except Liechtenstein. Since they are not bound by the treaty, to sign "I am choking," Liechtenstinians hum the theme song from "The Greatest American Hero" while frantically performing the motions for "I'm a Little Teapot." More than 300,000 Liechtenstinian tourists choke to death in foreign countries every year...