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...decor leaves a lot to be desired, unless one is a fan of neon signs, plastic tablecloths and tacky wall murals. Don't expect to find chopsticks (without a special request) or matching silverware either. If a patron survives the steep staircase down to the basement, the bathrooms are even more repulsive, stinking of human fertilizer...
Call it trickle-down politics. No one realized in 1984 that the Reagan Revolution would eventually seep down and destroy liberalism in its safest sanctuaries. But the Reagan deficits, and the critique of government spending they bolstered, led to a steep decline in federal aid to urban areas, from $64 per city resident in 1980 to $29 in 1993. The inability to spend money has reached America's big cities, and it has done to liberalism there what it did to national liberalism a decade ago. To survive, mayors have had to either find new sources of money...
...last two weeks, I've been using Dragon's Naturally Speaking on my Pentium-200 with pretty good results. NaturallySpeaking has gotten the best reviews by and large in trade publications, despite its relatively steep price of $199. From my experience, the praise for Dragon's product is well-deserved...
...Clinton and Jiang highlighted the differences that remain between the United States and China. On human rights, Clinton said China's policies are "on the wrong side of history," and "we have profound disagreements there." He later reinforced his point, saying "you shouldn't in any way minimize the steep differences that still remain between us over that issue...
...Kaufman, however, asserted that a stream of weak earnings reports or a jump in interest rates could have set off a steep decline just as easily as Hong Kong's problems...