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...that eventually housed their heavy-equipment concern, the Japanese pronounced it "very dull and scary, very gloomy," recalls John Gregory, a Tennessee official who escorted the group. When the Komatsu executives suddenly announced that they were buying the abandoned plant, says Gregory, "it kind of threw us for a loop...
...bull market itself. The effect of stock prices on the broader economy is a subject of considerable dispute: the market has collapsed during business booms and skyrocketed during recessions. But some economists believe in what Allen Sinai, chief economist of Shearson Lehman Bros., calls a "positive feedback loop": a rising economy spurs stock prices, which in turn help to prompt further business growth...
...McFarlane and his successor as National Security Adviser, John Poindexter. "Covert actions were pretty much left to Casey and ((CIA Deputy Director)) John McMahon, with little if any top-level discussion or review," says one former Administration policymaker. According to this official, even Reagan was cut out of the loop: "The President became less and less involved. Decision making was less systematically fashioned. There was no process to involve him. There was too much informality...
...never wanted to see [them] again....[a]ll those goblins of growing up--fear, envy, insecurity and sloth," Schumer writes after a return to her freshman room. "And all that I saw in that room, in which I began my most difficult years, were two opened windows and the loop of a shade fluttering in the breeze...
...minute cram course from a neighbor provided me with exceptional training. "There's a thing called a loop," she said. "Don't worry about how it works. You don't need to know that for the test...