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...contrast, when Megawati took over as President in 2001 after the impeachment of her predecessor Abdurrahman Wahid, the economy was on the verge of another debt crisis. "We had to rebuild the economy, not from scratch but from ruin," says Laksamana Sukardi, Megawati's minister for state enterprises. "We can't really please everyone in two years." But, he adds, much has been achieved: "I guarantee that there will never be a crisis like 1997 again...
...until 1990, when Nintendo backed out of a partnership with Sony to build a new video-game machine. Most in the company wanted to cede the battlefield, but Kutaragi believed Sony could go it alone; he led an in-house splinter cell that developed a new game console from scratch. The PlayStation debuted in 1994. By the end of the decade it was generating 40% of Sony's operating profit...
Having achieved legal gambling age, I instituted my own protective factors: no sports gambling. Only $1 scratch-off lotto, not 2 or 5. One poker game a week. But, impetuous youth that I am, I’ve quickly found excuses...
Hendricks (5-1), who was a late scratch from Saturday’s games due to back spasms, won his fifth straight decision with a solid six-inning outing. He also walked twice, scored two runs and stole a base, one of seven for the Crimson on the game...
...sure how I feel. Numb, mostly. Disappointed. Angry. Could I really have just spent six months of my life on one of the signature corporate-fraud cases of the Wall Street bubble only to have the judge rule that it must be started again from scratch, like some do-over in a childhood kickball game? How did it come to this...