Word: smoked
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...soft landing is a distant memory. Now Greenspan is looking for a hard bounce-back, and that takes not only cheaper money but good psychology. And with the economy - two thirds of which is in consumers' trembling hands - not only screeching to a halt but starting to spew smoke from under the hood, three quarters of a point looks like the only shot in the arm in Dr. Greenspan's medicine cabinet...
...handful of states, such as West Virginia, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Nevada and New Mexico, are so spooked by the chaos on the West Coast that, at least for the moment, they are pulling the plug on deregulation. "We're going to wait for the smoke to clear," says North Carolina state senator David Hoyle, co-chairman of the legislative commission that just delayed the planned deregulation...
...Call me picky, but breathing second-hand smoke, unfair dairy pricing, and not being able to mime (or lap dance), though they are all tragic, tragic injustices, are not quite as bad as the systematic segregation of public transportation based on skin color. And while fighting for your right to lap dance and mime and breathe just the regular pollution and not the added fumes of cigarette smokers is a very fine, very American idea, it is not quite as brave as being a middle-aged black woman in Alabama in 1955 telling a white man she's not giving...
Deep in the southwestern corner of Arizona, the dun-colored desert shudders underfoot as the Army's newest big gun, belching flame and smoke, blasts fire extinguisher-size artillery rounds farther and faster than ever before. Now under development, the Crusader is the world's most fearsome mobile howitzer. It is also among the costliest and heaviest ever built. And because of all that, it may be one of the fattest targets for the Bush Defense Department. Incoming Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is under orders from the new Commander in Chief "to challenge the status quo inside the Pentagon." Rumsfeld...
...With her spiky hairdo, her even-spikier attitude and a plume of cigarette smoke following in her wake, it was impossible not to notice JULIA PHILLIPS whenever she walked into a room. When Phillips died from cancer last week at the age of 57, Hollywood lost one of its most scorned pariahs as well as one of the few outrageous personalities left in an increasingly corporate, risk-adverse industry. A film producer who made history as the first woman ever to win a best picture Oscar (for The Sting in 1973), she became downright infamous after her 1991 autobiography...