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...expect tech-type returns from traditional defensive groups: these stocks are designed to protect your portfolio and are not likely to pump it up significantly. But branching out into these sectors can help you maintain a balanced portfolio, so you're ready to start playing offense again when the market looks a little steadier...
Road-tripping Americans are standing aghast at the pump: Why, they are thinking, after all that high-level OPEC maneuvering, are gas prices back on the upswing? That's a good question, and if you know the answer, Energy Secretary Bill Richardson will take your call right now. In March, when OPEC increased daily oil output by 1.7 million barrels, the car-driving public - and the Clinton administration officials, wary of a cranky electorate - breathed a sigh of relief; by the time we set out on our summer vacations, analysts assured us, gas prices will have settled into...
Nevertheless, there have also been changes in our way of doing business that could eventually work to improve customer service. From the modest beginning signaled by the promise of "easy to assemble," we have trained people to pump their own gas and be responsible for installing and fixing their own telephones. We now have "assisted self-service," or hold for the hot line, in which someone is eventually made available to tell the customer to look around the store to find what he wants, wait around all day for home service or call around until a representative can be made...
...cuts are not appealing. Dope's industrial punk version of Dead or Alive's '80s classic "You Spin Me Round" and New Wave classics from Information Society ("What's On Your Mind") and New Order ("True Faith") are great the first couple of times around. So is M/A/R/R/S' classic "Pump Up The Volume." Hip-hop makes an appearance in the form of a remix of Eric B. and Rakim's 1987 "Paid In Full." The album tries too hard, however, to capture the basic starkness of the film: the dark remixes of David Bowie and the Cure are wholly unpleasant...
EROS ENVY Tired of men having all the fun? The FDA has approved something that may be a remedy. Not for the squeamish, the Eros Clitoral Therapy Device consists of a soft plastic cup (placed over you know where) and a palm-size battery-operated pump. By drawing blood to the clitoris, the device causes engorgement, a key to sexual arousal. In trials 80% of women with female sexual-arousal disorder reported experiencing sexual satisfaction, and 55% said they could reach orgasm more easily. The price of pleasure: $350--and a doctor...