Word: savings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...race to save the living, men with bulldozers and jackhammers and bare hands clawed into the dangerously teetering piles. Disaster experts from abroad, volunteers from around the country, neighbors from the next street dug desperately to reach the faint sounds of life still echoing from the debris. Here a frail three-year-old girl was pulled out, barely moving but alive. There a woman was extricated, still breathing, after rescuers spent eight hours delicately prying away the fallen slabs. At every dusty mound that was once an apartment house, survivors pleaded for help in finding loved ones. "My brother...
...people racked by starvation, North Korea's most successful business is one that involves pulling cash and aid out of South Korea, the U.S. and Japan in exchange for abandoning an arms buildup. Nobody knows just what "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il and his comrades would do to save themselves and their regime. And nobody wants to find...
...problem on the cost side is that some of the activity you're trying to encourage would occur anyway. In these cases the subsidies are wasted. This is egregiously true of tax incentives to promote savings, such as IRAs. People would save money even if there were no tax advantage. They may save more because of the tax incentive, but they get the break from dollar...
...interesting to note how many readers expected negative comments about the Cruise-Kidman cover because the couple appeared to be nude. But not even graphic copulation could save this clunker. Stanley Kubrick spent 53 months on this project, which he had wanted to produce for 28 years. I hope his demise was not triggered by seeing the end result. ARLINE MCFARLANE West Vancouver...
...takes a look at her own emotional baggage. On Not Lookin', Blige derides "player sh__" but is confident enough to bring in male singer (and ex-boyfriend) K-Ci Hailey for a sort of vocal debate. Mary is somewhat inconsistent in song quality, but Blige's soul-singed vocals save the weaker material. There are also several high points: on Don't Waste Your Time, Aretha Franklin and Blige stage a soulful summit meeting on trifling men, and on All That I Can Say, Lauryn Hill, the song's producer and writer, serves up a gorgeous melody. Blige...