Word: investments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...young, attractive actor-singers give heartfelt performances nonetheless, never condescending to the characters but finding dignity in their primal passions. In particular, Willard White and Cynthia Haymon invest the title roles with wrenching believability. In Nunn's conception, the crippled beggar Porgy is less pathetic and helpless than in most productions, hobbling on crutches instead of pushing himself on a cart. At the end he flings away his crutches and, in search of his missing Bess, lurches off painfully, heroically into a blaze of backlighting. It's a dazzling final image, but one that also points up the drawback...
Another problem with the computer, according to students, is the steep price--$699 for the bare-bones unit. For that money, many students would rather invest in a more practical unit, according to Harvard Computer Society president Jeff Tarr...
...energized, we're prepared, and we'revery excited to be doing this," says Miller. "Thisis the first time since Truman that we have aPresident willing to invest the political capitalin trying to reform the health care system...
...finance our government until our infrastructure is established," says Zahira Kemal, an adviser to the Palestinian peace delegation. The World Bank last week outlined a $4.3 billion development plan covering the next eight to 10 years to rebuild the territories' primitive infrastructure. The Palestinians are counting heavily on outside investment from the European Community, Japan, the U.S. and the Persian Gulf states. In addition, says Ghassan Khatib, a member of the peace delegation, "there are a lot of rich Palestinians, and they are eager to invest in the territories for nationalistic reasons. They want a place to belong...
...interest rates are the lowest in decades and the stock market is setting record highs. With inflation and economic growth both down to a crawl, the low cost of borrowing has become the prime mover of the tepid U.S. economic recovery and the key to how Americans save and invest...