Word: solider
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...startling any longer to hear of new job eliminations, even at companies that have already gone through several previous rounds of layoffs and are earning solid profits. AT&T qualifies on both counts. It has been bouncing people at an average rate of around 900 a month since 1984, when an antitrust decree forced it to get rid of its seven "Baby Bell" regional phone companies. Not entirely by coincidence, it earned $4.7 billion in 1994 and $2.8 billion in the first nine months of 1995. (A write-off against fourth-quarter earnings of $4 billion after taxes for severance...
...keep the bottles uncorked. Talk to most experts in law enforcement, and they soon complain about the paucity of solid research to identify what works against crime. Norval Morris, a professor of law and criminology at the University of Chicago, compares the state of knowledge in his field to that in medicine earlier in the century, when doctors were commonly in the dark as to whether their treatments worked, or why. "Testing the consequences [for crime] of different drug policies, different housing practices, different police practices--it's very, very rarely done," he says...
TIME should be America's common ground. We should look at ideas with an open mind, testing them not against some standard of ideological purity but against the solid touchstone of our common sense and sensibility. Our ideals must reflect the shared values in the hearts of most Americans. To my mind, these principles are simple yet profound: try to figure out what's best for our kids; clean up after ourselves; have faith in the power that comes from free markets and free minds; realize that individual opportunity and neighborly compassion can go hand in hand; and always...
Oliver Parker's Othello is the more standard of the two, a solid reading that pulls out the stops on an easily played organ. This is, after all, a soap opera of the had-I-but-known variety. All the Moor has to do is ask his wife's servant, "Pray, did thee swipe fair Desdemona's hankie?" and the misunderstanding is resolved as smoothly as any episode of Home Improvement. But then there would be little allurement in the role for some of this century's most dominant actors...
...bottom line is that the Crimson must post two victories over lesser teams this weekend if it entertains any hopes of a solid finish in the ECAC...