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...pace and jumbled texture -- stories start, stop and overlap seemingly at random -- set it apart from almost anything else on the air. "There's a rhythmic instinct to slow down in television," says Crichton. "But our show had to go as fast as the real thing. We got rid of the pauses, those actors' moments, the hanging looks that mean nothing. Medical shows have been at the Marcus Welby pace: meet a patient, portray the disease of the week and finish with some heart-wrenching solution. Here we just rip people...
...about how to buy toaster ovens and tires. But good writing alone won't solve the biggest confusion with mutual funds: there are too many of them. At current count we've got twice as many funds as there are stocks on the New York Stock Exchange. Getting rid of a few thousand would be a big help...
While Harvard professors were generally critical of the changes, one faculty member here noted that not having tenure does have a few advantages. Bennington will be able to get rid of those who are not performing as well as they once...
...drawing a connection, but I do know that I did speak out at a couple of faculty meetings," Golub said. "I defended a teacher in a sexual harassment hearing. There's some reason to believe he was someone they wanted to get rid...
Then last week the ruble, which had begun to slip in September, nose-dived in three hours of panicky trading, from 3,081 to the dollar to 3,900, as money dealers rushed to rid themselves of the currency. Ordinary folk joined the traders in bailing out, queuing up in front of street-corner exchange offices to offer bundles of rubles for dollars or deutsche marks. Shopkeepers shuttered their premises to mark up prices on par with the currency slump, and lines formed at gas stations as motorists tried to fill up their tanks before prices rose. By nightfall...