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...wonder what's happened since then--to Adams and to us. Since the huge randomization of last year's sophomores, transvestites and smokers are indeed growing scarcer as students clad in brightly colored oxford shirts make their quiet entrance onto the Adamsian stage...
...mainstream economist believes that the kind of full-blown protectionist response demonstrated by Los Angeles last week would do anything beyond saving some jobs in the short run. Ultimately, most contend, consumers would pay the price of a trade war, with scarcer and more expensive imports...
With good news scarcer than sausage in the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev made the most of what was available last week. Emerging jubilant from a Kremlin meeting with the Federation Council, a policymaking body that includes leaders of the 15 republics, the President announced that a temporary economic truce had been reached with the republics, finally making it possible to draft a national budget for the coming year. The central government and the republics, Gorbachev said, would also cooperate to overcome a deepening food crisis and set up a transitional administration until a new treaty reorganizing the federal structure...
...income, they would be required to pay higher premiums for Part B coverage, which covers doctors' bills. The deductible they pay before receiving any reimbursement would also rise. Finally, new limitations would be put on the fees charged by physicians and hospitals, raising fears that medical attention may become scarcer for the elderly. These items would save nearly $60 billion over five years, or 12% of the total package...
...reason he was interesting to watch. Instead of declaiming on the universe, we try to pick out people or companies that more or less represent trends. I thought that Trump was a fine exemplar of financial leverage and gall, both of which were in oversupply and now are becoming scarcer...