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...many ways, the new era is a mirror image of the buoyant 1980s, when inflation and economic growth were higher and debt was desirable. Consumers, businesses and the U.S. government borrowed like mad because they figured the economic boom would keep income and salaries growing faster than the debt. Now that growth has slowed, the mentality has changed completely. The Clinton Administration is increasing taxes to fight the deficit, and consumers and corporations are frantically digging out of debt. "I encourage people to wipe the 1980s from their minds from the point of view of investment strategy, because the hyperinflation...
...beyond him. He doesn't offer any scene that convincingly suggests the kind of authentic mutual attraction that might overcome the couple's superficial differences. He doesn't know how to coax a performance out of Jackson, who relates to the camera lens as if it were a mirror. He never finds a way either to put an interesting spin on the incidents of the journey or to link them dynamically. And he doesn't know how to turn a graceful romantic line or how to put real snap into a comic one; his dialogue is mainly street epithets mumbled...
...report released in May by the National Collegiate Athletic Association said colleges must raise the participation rates of women athletes to mirror the proportion of women among its students...
...hardware and grand engineering projects rather than ideas, as if NASA's only constituency were the aerospace industry, has retarded rather than advanced the agency's true mission of exploring the universe. Such genuine marvels as the Hubble Space Telescope (which has returned spectacular results despite a slightly misshapen mirror), the Galileo spacecraft now on its way to Jupiter and the COBE satellite, which last year revealed details of the origin of the universe, have had to operate in the shadows, delayed and beggared by NASA's other concerns...
Porter's feeling for the old masters, and his oblique way of quoting them -- testing himself against them -- is quite explicit in a painting like The Mirror, 1966. It is his homage to Velazquez's Las Meninas. A young girl sits with her back to a large mirror, propped up behind her in the studio. The mirror reflects her back and, beyond that, the painter, whose posture recalls the image of the distant chamberlain at the end of Velazquez's long chamber. And yet, once you have figured out its setup, seen that the window with its blurred blaze...