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Just at that moment, another man appeared at my elbow. It was time to start the manicure...
...September 7, 2000, Durst's son, Douglas, who now serves as the company's president, hung a red, white and blue curtain over the sign. The ceremony not only marked what would have been his father's 87th birthday, but also an historic moment in U.S. history - the national debt was shrinking. Because the clock wasn't built to count backwards, Durst pulled the plug. Just two years later, following the burst of the dot-com bubble and the economic fall-out of 9/11, he turned it back on. The billboard has ticked forward ever since...
Where PC makers wallow in confusion - some laptops include multiple types of mouse (touch pads and pointers), for instance - Apple has found a moment of Zen. The new MacBook has eliminated its single-button mouse altogether; every interaction now occurs via a glass touch pad. To select something, you simply push down on the glass pad. Or as Jobs said, "The whole trackpad is the button." This generation of touch pads, by the way, lets users do a lot more with one hand. One finger directs the mouse, two fingers enlarge and reduce images, three fingers allow you to rapidly...
...closest advisors. But this time, they seem to be hitting all at once and have forced Garcia's Cabinet to resign and have the president groping for ways to refine his administration. And the country's murderous bugaboo, the guerrillas of the Shining Path, have chosen this moment to stage their biggest attack in years...
...that kind of state involvement is a central part of the European bailout plans, which involve governments recapitalizing banks in trouble in exchange for a slice of equity. In plain English, that's called partial renationalization. How much equity depends on the size of the bailout, and for the moment, other than in Britain, precise details about which banks will receive how much and in exchange for what remain to be negotiated. Along with the fresh capital, governments are proposing a series of other measures designed to restore confidence in the banking system by guaranteeing deposits, jump-starting interbank lending...