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...saying goes, it's always time to buy until it isn't. "If Asia stays minor -- which personally, I doubt -- and interest rates stay down, there's no reason this shouldn't continue," Kadlec says. "We could have 10,000 by May -- this thing is out of control...
That is not a minor hit. It would mean gross domestic product's increasing considerably less than the robust 3% or so that it might otherwise have managed, unemployment's rising a bit rather than sinking to still further lows, and a distinct slowdown in corporate profits--especially among companies that had been exporting $300 billion or more a year to the Asian region. On the other hand, sagging demand from Asia is contributing to a worldwide deflation (a term rarely heard since the 1930s) in commodity prices, especially oil. And that is helping to douse what little inflationary fire...
...frankly, after the obligatory minor spasms of unreasoning, abject fear had rippled from hair follicles to bowel, it seemed to me that maybe the end of civilization as we know it isn't such a bad idea. After all, in our long, tedious march of regress have we earthlings really accomplished much besides spewing garbage, ammunition and the Jerry Springer Show into the environment? Wouldn't it set a nice example if we could just for once accept the inevitable and issue a press release reading, "Hey, we gave it our best shot, but we really weren...
...same vigor he exhibited almost two hours earlier at the concert's commencement, led his group into an encore performance of Beethoven's Egmont Overture. The overture acted as the perfect capstone to an already well-rounded program, its melody passed from woodwinds to strings, undulating through major and minor keys while the timpani underscored the excitement in the audience. This time there were rounds of bravos from the listeners for the orchestra and its beaming conductor, who repeatedly mouthed "thank you" to the appreciative crowd of concert-goers...
...Some minor details: the "music" for the movie really does not deserve the name, and makes no pretense at all towards sounding like anything that anyone in the seventeenth century would have heard--it seems as if all the instruments were replaced by a synthesizer. The costumes are more convincing; though not overwhelmingly beautiful, there are no noticeable anachronisms...