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...public life, the car became our private sanctuary from it. The little corner of London - or Paris or Madrid - on wheels that is mine, mine, mine. Today, however, the average traffic speed in London is just over 9 km/h. On some key roads, it has slowed to 2.9 km/h - slower than horse-and-cart days, slower than the rats running in the gutters. Londoners have the worst average commute time at 51 minutes per person, according to a recent survey, but Amsterdam residents only do four minutes better. It did not have to be this way. "London's traffic...
...would be closer to 9,000 than 8,000," said Ian Shepherdson, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics. Same goes for a sudden coup or abdication. And while the "working assumption" on which economists and investment strategists are basing their forecasts these days is a bit slower-motion - a clean, quick three-week war that turns fast, Gulf-War style - Shepherdson says his point still stands. Whether it takes one session or several weeks, there's a rally in there waiting to be born, and when it's clear Saddam is going down, "stocks will take a big move...
...remains unclear exactly what factors led Fonda to withdraw the bulk of donation, but plans for the center and for filling the chair were moving slower than planned...
...manipulation could backfire. "The Senate is very jealous of its independence," explains a G.O.P. Senator. "They don't want the White House kicking them around." Frist faces a balky group of G.O.P. committee chairmen. Alaska Senator Ted Stevens, a Lott ally who chairs the Appropriations Committee, may move slower on spending bills and lard them with more pork than Frist or Bush wants. Oklahoma Senator Don Nickles, who has long lusted after the majority leader's job and heads the Budget Committee, can be expected to push for bigger tax cuts than the White House believes are palatable. Another Lott...
Behind the wheel of the family's beige Windstar minivan, Rowley is the first to admit, she is an aggressive driver, passing slower-moving cars on a two-lane highway at every chance. It's hard to tell her exact speed, since the speedometer is broken. The needle swings between 70 and 100 m.p.h., even when she's braking. Every now and then, Rowley pounds the dashboard above the gauges. "This is what Ross does," she says with a shrug...