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Brown, a graduate student, and Fowler, an undergrad, were forced to dig a shallow cave in the snow, after initial attempts to shield themselves from the severe weather failed...
...Middle East war creates an oil-price shock and plunges the U.S. into a deeper recession. In a gloomy assessment of the banking outlook, FDIC chairman L. William Seidman warned Congress last week that more big banks could go bust in 1991 unless the current recession is "short and shallow." A run of large failures would swiftly bankrupt the FDIC's deposit-insurance fund, which stood at $9 billion last month. Even without a sharp downturn, Seidman said, the fund will fall to a record low of $4 billion by the end of 1991, as an estimated 180 banking firms...
These are the longest days. Time moves in slow motion. An entire world waits with shallow breath, and the news never ends. Snippets of hope are dashed almost as quickly as they appear, only to be succeeded by fresh rumors of a peaceful exit. In a sense, it is all familiar. End games fascinate. In school, where we studied them attentively, the chapters were invariably titled "The Drift Toward War." The conclusions, too, were nearly uniform: If only there had been more time; if only the antagonists had understood one another better; if only the crisis had been nipped...
...GULF: These are the longest days. Time moves in slow motion. An entire world waits with shallow breath, asking, Will there be peace or will there...
...Paradigm and New Paradigm are often blended. Ham-handed, mired stupidity, sheer dumbness, are Old Paradigm. Stupidity is New Paradigm as well, but in a different style (shallow, amoral, empty, ignorant of the past). Television, the medium of the New Paradigm, has a devastating addiction to the mediocre that it now and then overcomes. The New Paradigm in haste and distraction sometimes goes for the simple-minded. Entertainment and news media, for example, find themselves "dumbing down" their content on the strange assumption that their audience, or reality itself, has grown stupider. It is not true, but the idea...