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...people who had been in politics for so many years who could give them nothing. They saw people who had been in exile and who came back for the elections and thought they could build on ethnic sentiments. It didn't work. They also thought that foreigners would prop them up and make them President. But that kind of politics doesn't work any more here. And they lost miserably. You know what the turnout was? 96%. Everybody turned out to vote. People were simply united in voting for what might bring peace. Maybe in 2010, it will different, because...
...Moveable Feast” by Ernest Hemingway. I lifted it from the shelf and turned it over, only to find the back blank, the dust jacket non-existent, and the cover glued to the “pages.” The book was a prop, a fake, meant solely for decoration. Enraged though I was at the thought that someone who could care less about the content would display a faux-Hemingway on the living room shelf, I realized that I was being a bit hypocritical: I myself had not read the book. Returning home sans rug, lamp...
...sales next year. Bombardier is working on the Q400X, a 90-seater, which would be the largest turboprop in the world, to compete quietly with even bigger jets. As turbos continue to make noise in aviation, at least it's no longer the kind we've always expected. PROP-U-LAR Worldwide orders for turboprop aircraft with 20 to 90 seats [This article contains a chart. Please see hardcopy of magazine...
...that commercial and investment banks will have to impose tighter credit standards on borrowers, and possibly even start pulling out of deals that are already under way. As credit becomes more expensive, capital spending will slow and companies will have less money available to fund share buybacks - a key prop for the equity markets. These factors, along with weakening consumer and business confidence, could tip an already stalling U.S. economy into recession...
...pistachio. I don't know why that's such a quick answer but honestly pistachio jumped at me. Maybe because I was asked to have an ice cream lat week in a movie I'm making here in New York and I said, 'could I have pistachio' and the prop guy said no. My face dropped. That would be on film, my sad face...