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...industry as a whole, the outlook seems to be getting brighter, with many banks actually thriving. The total level of bank capital, their cushion against losses, is at its highest since 1966. Despite the weak economy, problem loans have shrunk nearly 6% so far this year. Total bank profits zoomed to a record $15.5 billion in the first half of the year, up from $11.1 billion in the same period two years...
This fall my Core section has also pushed the distinction between "section" and an unpopular lecture course. At least the section was packed for the first two meetings. Last week, our ranks had shrunk to 15, but that was because, I suspect, we had a paper due that...
...workers through employment agencies and newspaper advertisements. Earning from $8 to $10 an hour, they crisscrossed New York City beseeching passersby to sign up before the state's Aug. 27th filing deadline. Elsewhere, Perot's bounty has subsidized the remains of his political operation. The Florida campaign, which has shrunk from 38 to 10 outposts, solicits donations through a newsletter. In South Carolina and other states, workers are hawking Perot bumper stickers, baseball caps and T shirts. But none of these offices could stay open without the $7,500 monthly stipends from Dallas to pay for rent, phones, utilities...
...coming -- get out of the way! The competition is stepping aside for Batman Returns: no other studio movie opens that weekend. Does Hollywood think everybody is going to just one movie on June 19? Have the bosses forgotten the lesson of 1989, when brave little Disney opened Honey, I Shrunk the Kids the same day that Batman opened and eventually earned $130 million for the $10 million comedy? Mark Canton, president of Columbia Pictures, hopes there is room for the long shots, the Lil E. Tees, to sprint past the big-budget Arazis. "Our films aren't supertankers," he says...
...objects don't declare themselves across the room at you. Like certain Joseph Cornell boxes, or like the tiny clay caricature heads by Daumier that so influenced Giacometti's ideas of scale they pull you close in with their bright and almost fetishistic visual promise until you have shrunk, as it were, to their size...