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Since I consider myself a liberal Democrat, I suppose I am allowed to propose a modest change in the system: We should...
Home is a relatively modest four-bedroom house in the San Fernando Valley, decorated in blue and filled with electronic gear. ("I'm very high-tech oriented. I wouldn't have a TV without doors that open electronically.") His garage houses two cars: a white 1986 Jaguar XJS and a Mustang convertible. He stays in close touch with his mother, who is a big fan ("No one barks louder at my show than my mom") and for whom he bought a condo in West Hollywood. For relaxation, Hall tried painting for a while but gave it up; took tennis lessons...
...same vein, Sachs believes that the Latin debt crisis will eventually ease. He considers a plan that Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady unveiled last spring, which calls for limited debt reduction, a modest but encouraging step. "There has been a lot of progress," Sachs says. "The thinking is much more realistic...
...boundaries, are likely to be more an annoyance than a danger to farmers. In northern Minnesota, where some 1,200 wolves forage in a cattle-ranch and sheep-farm area, the highest annual payoff by a Government program set up to compensate stockmen for wolf kills has been a modest $21,000. (Problem wolves there are killed by federal hunters, as would be true around Yellowstone.) There have been no documented cases in modern times of wolves attacking people in the U.S. But it is taken as a home truth that wolves will bring federal wolf bureaucrats, whose regulations will...
That assessment proved unerring. After a steep drop in early trading, stocks roared back Monday to post an 88.12-point gain for the day. Then on Thursday, the anniversary of the 1987 crash, the Government reported that the Consumer Price Index rose a modest 0.2% in September, propelling the market to a 39.55- point gain. The Dow closed at 2689.14 Friday, up a record 119.88 points for the week. In Tokyo the Nikkei index lost 647.33 points Monday but surged more ! than 1,000 points in the next four days to finish the week...