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...would such good news turn Wall Street bearish? For one thing, the Street doesn't like surprises. This one broke the back of the sagging bond market, which had expected interest rates to keep falling. But the robust economic report hinted that rates might rise. The stock market headed for the exits, fearing that higher rates will lure money out of equities...
...Buchanan talks like him, bashing NAFTA and GATT, while Forbes spends like him, powering his campaign with his own plentiful cash. And both of them claim the status of political outsider that was crucial to Perot's strength four years ago. For a man with the Texas billionaire's robust self-regard, it can't be much fun to watch stand-ins play the role he wrote for himself...
Responsible for the robust sound on the album is producer Brad Wood, whose portfolio includes Liz Phair and Veruca Salt. In fact, the grunge-pop arrangements on the album recall Veruca Salt and are no doubt attributable in part to Wood's production. Wood's insistence on precise recording allows the band to "sound like we're playing live in your living room," as Lane says...
Even as Dugan was rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, word reached President Clinton, campaigning in New Hampshire. The incident was not unexpected; when the President embarked on his robust Bosnia policy, he knew that casualties were inevitable. Fatalities, however, sometimes provoke spasms of American self-doubt; which is perhaps why, in nearly the same breath as offering his "deepest sympathies," Clinton restated his resolve to stay on course. Asked if he had second thoughts about the mission, the President said, "No, not at all. I told the American people before it started that the place...
...None of them have become ill with AIDS; neither, it turns out, has the donor. Scientists have speculated that the virus that infected them is missing snippets of key genetic material that hampers its ability to reproduce - while at the same time protecting the carriers from infection by more robust HIV strains...