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...Which will put a much-needed stop to both the prospect of the Fed saving us from the significant correction we all know we need, and the disappointment over the Fed's not having done so already. Businesses will invest again when they think they can do so profitably, and investors will do so profitably when they see businesses do it too. In the meantime, we're all be better off waiting for this to happen on its own, or else we'll just get stuck with a bunch of junk - be they overbought stocks or overbought goods - that...
...some of the cooker's eight standard colors, expensive training courses given by chefs and cooks around the country, and even a quarterly magazine with proud owners' photographs of Agas in the bosom of their families. Despite this wholesome picture of Aga life, the stove is a daunting prospect for a first-time user. The doors have no conventional handles - they are lifted open and shut like gates. More worrying still, there are no temperature dials to adjust either the hotplates or ovens. So how on earth do you cook? Nervous novices get no comforting answer. Choose the appropriate oven...
...news, of course is for that to happen, the sky - and the roof - would have to fall first. And the prospect of a spring rebound could get buried in the wreckage...
...have two choices: the speculations of anthropologists or the Book of Genesis. Both are beyond proof, but which speaks to the inmost perceptions of the soul? JAMES R. SCHAEFER Mount Prospect...
...computer and telecom-equipment makers now facing rebellious shareholders and piles of inventory, the prospect of a cash infusion from the sale of their factories to EMS companies is especially appealing. "We used to have to fight and plead for companies to divest assets to us," says Dave Fargnoli, a director of finance at Flextronics. "Now we're in the driver's seat because they are rushing to off-load them." Marks, a salesman to the bone, tells potential customers: "You can be a market-leading company and not make a single thing." Why not, he adds with a grin...