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While Flynn invoked his political legacy and Bachrach touted an impressive plan for activist government, Capuano says he tried to be modest...
...paid off brilliantly for the company. GE's shareholder value spiraled 515%, from $39 billion in 1986 to $240 billion in 1997. During the same period, profits shot up 228%, from $2.5 billion to $8.2 billion, while the company's income tax payments to the U.S. Treasury rose a modest 27%, from $1.1 billion to $1.4 billion. In the process, GE pared the U.S. portion of its income tax bill from 84% to 52%. At the same time, GE's income tax payments to foreign governments shot up 550%, from $200 million to $1.3 billion...
That memorable 1966 display of the so-called Leonid meteors was visible across much of the Western U.S. and marked the century's greatest meteor storm to date. Now, after 32 years of relatively modest return visits, the Leonids are poised to stage another celestial spectacular on the nights of Nov. 17 and Nov. 18. How spectacular? Scientists forecast heavy meteor showers and, just possibly, a full-blown storm as dramatic as the one 32 years...
...became clear that the idea of a bridge--even a more modest bridge was not very acceptable," said John Pitkin, president of the Mid-Cambridge Community Association...
...there's a similarity between an American painter of sublime, theatrical Western scenery like Albert Bierstadt and an Australian one like the more modest Eugene von Guerard, it isn't accidental. Both received the same training at the Dusseldorf Academy and acquired skill at the tight, glossy, detailed rendering of grandiose scenes. Von Guerard joined the gold rush to Australia in 1852 but failed as a prospector, and made a career for 30 years painting two kinds of scenery: portraits of the settled acres of the well-to-do pastoralists; and views of more exotic wildness, from the bizarrely sculpted...