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...trying enough, says Gritta, to be an airline passenger on a normal day in America. Add untold delays and checkpoints and general hassle to that experience, and you could be looking at an extremely grouchy flying public. "We?ve got overcrowded, overscheduled airports," he says. "And now we?re going to add longer lines and longer check-in times...
...There is a chance that this wound comes with its own tourniquet, and not just in the normal balancings of capitalism. (Insurance companies, for instance, will enjoy skyrocketing rates next year; New Jersey is likely to be the new home for many a displaced and dispirited business.) Money, with all its multipliers...
...economy, and so is disaster; and if the immediate financial shocks send third-quarter growth below water, the fourth quarter of 2001 - and the first of 2002 - could be sufficiently inflated by the U.S. government?s spare-no-expense drive to get America and its institutions as close to normal as quickly as possible...
...already pumping emergency liquidity into the banking system by a hundred times its normal daily dose. A deep Fed rate cut is likely; a capital-gains tax cut might be on the horizon. And some Wall Street analysts are raising the possibility that capital spending from businesses - whose pre-explosion problems may seem a bit less serious now - could follow. If this is indeed a new world, some may be moved to take this opportunity to invest in it. Certainly the forces of rebuilding, of renovation are economic engines of their...
...normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere. The fire fighters kept climbing the stairs of the tallest buildings in town, even as the steel moaned and the cracks spread in zippers through the walls, to get to the people trapped in the sky. We don't know yet how many of them died, but once we know, as Mayor Rudy Giuliani said, "it will be more than we can bear." That sentiment was played out in miniature in the streets, where fleeing victims pulled the wounded to safety...