Word: nearly
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...front page of newspapers all over Zaire, often accompanied by shrill headlines like THE BEGINNING OF THE END! At colleges in the capital, students have scrawled his name in chalk on the doors of their dorm rooms. The entire country appears to be monitoring his progress with a near religious sense of anticipation. "We are all just waiting for Kabila," declares one woman in Kinshasa. "He is like Jesus Christ...
...energy to enriching his own coffers, dipping into the national treasury as if it were a kind of personal cash machine. No one knows how much he is worth; his visible assets include mansions in Switzerland and Spain, several homes in Belgium, a town house in Paris, a villa near Monte Carlo and a horse ranch in Portugal. But while the President and other members of his kleptocracy profited handsomely, Mobutu's leadership laid waste the economy. In 1994 Zaire's per capita GNP was $125 (70% lower than it was in 1958), and prices rose an average...
...really like Nordstrom," says Kelly Chandler, 28, a marketing specialist at a Seattle radio station who has shopped at the fashion retailer's flagship store since she was a teenager. "They are always willing to accommodate you. When I go shopping, I always park my car near Nordstrom at the mall because I always start and end up there...
...bunch at this point. That's O.K. in an average of blue-chip companies, which are supposed to be the best of the best. But such doctoring can make an imperfect economy appear perfect. If this change had been made six years ago, the Dow would now be near 8000, not just passing 7000. Does that mean the Dow is going higher quickly? Not necessarily. Because adjustments are made for the higher prices of stocks added to the list, don't look for any immediate jump. And there's no guarantee that the newly added companies will continue...
Compared with what it was two years ago, Reagan's world has shrunk considerably. His beloved ranch near Santa Barbara is off-limits and up for sale; his vigorous regimen of old would be too risky today. Phone conversation is increasingly difficult. When he watches television, his comprehension swims in and out of focus. It is, as Nancy has aptly called this final chapter in Reagan's long career, "the long goodbye...