Word: noted
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Rarely has a sour note turned so sweet so fast. While production, jobs, incomes and consumer spending soared in the U.S. last year, corporate profits fell. To be sure, they fell only 0.8%, but that result stood out like the proverbial uncertain trumpet in a triumphal march. By April, analysts had begun muttering about "profitless prosperity" when--bingo! Within days, company earnings reports for the first quarter of 1999 heralded what the government eventually calculated was the strongest profit rebound in four years...
...there was pornography everywhere. And everyone played mean jokes on each other. For a week co-host Adam Carolla, who had gone to the Grammys with one of the Dixie Chicks, believed she was sending him gifts. These gifts included flowers and a 6-ft. sub with a note that said, "I will not be ignored!" TV hosts, I learned, aren't the smartest people on staff...
Your article on the failure of several rockets to launch their payloads [SPACE, May 24] implied that the world's satellite makers must depend on Russian, Chinese and European rockets to get into orbit. Nowhere did you make note of the most reliable booster in the world today--the Lockheed-Martin Atlas launch vehicle. The Atlas has had 43 consecutive successful launches of commercial and government satellites. That is a fabulous record in this very challenging business. The U.S. looks a bit better when the bad news is mitigated by the good. LEE R. SCHERER, FORMER DIRECTOR Kennedy Space Center...
Which may explain why one of the first things Gore did on getting back to Washington was send Chernomyrdin a congratulatory note. Sometimes, he has learned, personal touches make all the difference...
Susan Cheever, a novelist and memoirist, is the author of Note Found in a Bottle: My Life as a Drinker