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...should everybody rush out to buy one? Well...maybe not. HDTV's obvious advantages over conventional sets are offset by significant disadvantages. For openers, there's the price tag. Sony's smallish set, with a 34-in.-diagonal screen, lists for a largish $8,999. RCA's 55-in. projection-screen set goes for $6,999. Panasonic's 56-in. projection model might appear to be a bargain at $5,999, but it can pick up only nondigital broadcasts--unless you buy the optional $1,700 digital decoder. Prices will eventually drop, of course, but Bill Mannion, general manager...
...broad, ecstatic blend of the pristine disco of ABBA, the elegant jazz pop of Steely Dan, the rhythmic bass throb of funk and the bleary-eyed cocktail electronica of trip-hop. The product is anything but tired; on Sylvie, for example, the rueful, cosmopolitan irony of the lyric is offset completely by a glowing arrangement. The overlay of subtle syncopations and retro instrumentation makes the song surreal and engaging, like a chance meeting with Burt Bacharach after hours at a chic London nightclub. Some might call this kitsch, but emotional immediacy and sheer musical complexity make the song...
Want to jump into this group with me? First, make sure you can handle the pain that's going to come before the gain. Understand that a lot of investors who took capital gains earlier this year are going to be looking to offset those gains with losses between now and year's end, for tax purposes. They're going to sell some of their losers, including oil-service stocks. So while these stocks are attractive now--otherwise, remember, insiders wouldn't be buying--their prices might well go lower before they go higher. Decide how much you want...
...stocks since 1994. The major averages are up for the year, but thousands of stocks are well below their highs, and dozens of aggressive-growth stock funds are showing losses. All of them are candidates to be sold down even further so that investors can realize their losses to offset gains...
...your child is accepted at Princeton, you're doubly lucky. Not only is it an elite university, but in January, Princeton announced it would begin to dip into its endowment (the nation's fourth richest, valued at nearly $5 billion) specifically to help students from middle-income families offset more of its $33,040 annual price tag. Since then, Yale, Stanford and M.I.T. have announced similar plans...