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...Wall Street, having expected exactly what the Fed delivered, was up before 2:15 p.m. and rose a bit more on the announcement Tuesday before turning listless and closing a bit to the downside on some bad earnings news from Merck. This is a market whose most interest-rate-sensitive sectors have already run up even farther than the wider market since Sept. 21, and to whom Tuesday's 11th cut was decidedly not a surprise. The market may get a marginal boost from the nice warm feeling of a Washington stimulus package - word of a brewing deal Tuesday morning...
...alphabet seems beyond your realm of intellectual comprehension. Or perhaps it’s that vague, disquieting sense that nature, despite its splendor, no longer resonates with you; that the brisk, crackling intimations of autumn have failed to permeate your senses. At any rate, you’re listless, apathetic. You feel, in a word, gross...
When America's armed forces struck back at terrorism Sunday afternoon, I was courageously defending our nation against terrorism by scrubbing the floors of my Army Reserve unit in Queens, New York City. (I'd been late on Saturday.) It was listless work - most of the boot-marks were waxed in long ago. Mainly I was trying not to get powdered bleach on my new combat boots...
...listless international marketplace for new cures and treatments: Any ban on cloning embryonic cells will reach beyond American borders; patients in the U.S. will be unable to access treatments developed overseas using cloned embryonic stem cells. That side effect, some predict, could be the true death knell for continued studies. If the U.S. market is off limits there?s a lot less incentive for biomedical research abroad - and considerably less hope for patients here at home...
...another - Chinatsu shows the uninitiated Kyoko how to masturbate - but the latter recoils from physical love. A stronger movie would have started where this one leaves off, but it's a compact, spare tale shot in night-blue tones, which may ultimately be a metaphor for Japan's listless youth rather than a vigorous statement on sexual identity...