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...White House has been unable to figure out how to raise the $12 billion it thinks will be needed to finance a new world-trade treaty it wants Congress to pass by year's end; thus that treaty's fate is in doubt. And while the economy continues to perk up -- despite the slides in the value of the dollar and in the stock and bond markets -- the public is not giving Clinton credit...
...says J. Paul Horne, an economist for the Smith Barney Shearson investment firm in Paris. Indeed, Britain has been in a recovery for the past 18 months, and its gross domestic product is expected to grow 2.7% this year. The 11 other E.U. economies, however, are only beginning to perk up. After a disastrous 15% plunge last year, European auto sales should increase 3% this year, adding $5 billion to manufacturers' revenues. Most airlines report steady gains in the sensitive indicator of intra-European traffic, up more than 9% this year, though all major airlines are expected to lose money...
...coverage of abuse has raised juror interest in the motives and mind-set of the accused. "I think juries have always been interested in why something happened," she says. "Once the defendant crosses the threshold and does present that evidence ((of his victimization)), I do think the jurors' ears perk up and they become more interested." She speaks from some experience. She won the felony acquittal of Aurelia Macias, accused of cutting off her sleeping husband's testicles with a pair of scissors, by arguing that the California woman had been verbally and emotionally abused throughout her marriage and feared...
...main hall in San Francisco, the crowd was thick with employees from AT&T. Corporations buy about 40% of Success's tickets, mostly to reward good work or to perk up salesmen and saleswomen suffering from syndromes called "fear of closing" and "cold-call reluctance...
...been told that "Blueboy" is a British gay porn mag. I don't care.) These songs don't "rock" or "roll," they bounce--up and down and around and around like the social jitters and wobbly boyish hearts they generally describe. Collins is continually advising himself to perk up, or to take action, or (occasionally) to give up, then qualifying and qualifying that advice until the qualification itself, the delicate attempts to fine-tune one's own emotions, become the real subject of the music: he starts by telling himself to wake up and smell the coffee, and ends...