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...emerge over the next 15 years were used to pay it off. That would create a host of new challenges for economists and currency traders. What kind of security, for example, could replace the 30-year Treasury bond as the bellwether of bond trading and as a particular magnet for foreigners who accumulate dollars in trade with the U.S. and want to invest the bucks in something both high-yielding and safe? "This is my definition of a high-class problem," Summers wryly remarked. But no one at the meeting expected nearly every penny of budget surpluses to be used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Budget: Rolling In Dough | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

During his time in New York, McCourt also taught creative writing classes and spent much of his career at Stuyvesant High School, the city's well-known math/science magnet school...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Ashes' Author Jokes With Crowd | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

According to the report, "it is the collective strength of the Boston area's research institutions that help make it a magnet for private investors...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller and Erica B. Levy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Report Discusses Harvard's Impact on Region | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

...magnet that drew the capital back to Berlin wasn?t the city?s storied nightlife. Berlin had been Germany?s historic capital, and the establishment of the West German government in Bonn was an expression of postwar trauma (and an acknowledgment of the difficulties of operating in isolated West Berlin). "Chancellor Konrad Adenauer made clear after the war that the reason they chose Bonn was precisely because they were looking for a city without a history," says Wallace. The return to Berlin, its reviled wall now shattered into millions of sobering souvenirs, is a sign then that after the horrors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auf Wiedersehen Bonn, Willkommen Berlin | 8/24/1999 | See Source »

...certainly would cover the bummer of crashing your girlfriend's parents' car. Unfortunately, Andrew couldn't help me with that part, but he did tell me Jerry Seinfeld, who took the course a couple of times, totaled two Formula Four cars. Feeling sorry, Seinfeld slapped a Skip Barber magnet on his TV show's refrigerator. It is in that spirit of reconciliation that I now mention Hope and Ken, my girlfriend's parents, in this column. Now, stop calling me Mario...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Got a Fast Car | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

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