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...sector was larger at 43%. Domestic spending by the country's 47 million consumers has grown from about 50% of GDP in 1987 to 58%. With more than 1 million service sector jobs added since 2000, it looks like Korea will be the first Asian economy to make the leap from an industrial-led to service-driven domestic economy...
Siilats won the championship last year in dramatic fashion with a 1.86-meter leap while facing elimination, but couldn’t deliver in the clutch this time. Her best jump was 1.76 meters. Darnesha Griffith of UCLA won the meet at 1.85 meters...
...such circumstances and that in a democracy it is no good for the people not to publicly deal with that fact and to hypocritically condemn such practices. Democracies have to get their “hands dirty” according to Dershowitz, who took a few more seconds to leap over the Constitution, the Geneva Accords, the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man, and any other treaty outlawing torture. And Dershowitz was merciful too—after all, is not torture less harmful than death? Dershowitz mentioned at that very moment he was suffering severe pain as a result...
Getting Harvard’s first programs to make the leap to Watertown has been somewhat difficult, Spiegelman said...
WATCHING ELLIE NBC, Tuesdays, 8:30 p.m. E.T.; LEAP OF FAITH NBC, Thursdays, 8:30 p.m. E.T. The networks have long resented HBO, with its nyah-nyah-ing slogan, "It's not TV. It's HBO." But these network sitcoms are aiming to climb on the HBO buzz wagon. Ellie has a pay-cable veneer--an edgy narrative style (each story unfolds in real time), a cinematic look and no laugh track--but the safe heart of a network show. As a lounge singer of a certain age sleeping with her band's married guitarist, Seinfeld alumna Julia Louis-Dreyfus...