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That was two years ago. Now the payment stream from her business has come to its scheduled end, and Parry's plan has fallen apart. Her accountant recently floored her with awful news: the stock market has whacked her savings to $600,000, and she can no longer afford the lifestyle she had tasted so briefly. "I'm looking for part-time work," she says bitterly. "But something tells me it will end up being full-time work...
...Vinall, an analyst at DZ Bank in Frankfurt. He puts VoiceStream losses at ?2 billion a year. Because valuations for all telecoms companies are sharply down, VoiceStream may prove hard to sell. One other possibility reportedly being considered is to merge it with AT&T Wireless, which like Voice-Stream uses GSM mobile technology. That would create the second-largest mobile group in the U.S. Losses would be stemmed, or at least shared. Preliminary merger talks are believed to have started before Sommer quit. Because the German government still owns 43% of Telekom, its two votes on the 20-member...
After 1954, whenever I heard the pledge recited (in the ritual stream-of-consciousness way that one says, "ThirtydayshathSeptemberAprilJuneandNovembe ralltheresthavethirtyone"), it sounded somehow tampered with and wrong. The original version had been grooved into my brain. I mistrusted the addition of under God first of all on unconscious aesthetic grounds. The new phrase, set off by tendentious commas, was a hiccup in the flow of the drone, the mumbled civic music, the school kids' om. Even as a callow youth, I sensed that someone had intruded an alien and politicized bromide into the pledge. Again, the adjacent word indivisible banged...
...Fans intent on seeing the best Japanese players will have to follow the trail taken by the stream of jet-lagged Japanese tourists stumbling around Dodger Stadium, Pac Bell Park and Safeco Field. The influx into Seattle has been so pronounced that the team has posted signs in Japanese around the ballpark. "I'd like to say to Seattle baseball people and the mayor of Seattle, 'Please give an award to me,'" Inow says. "Seattle was known in Japan before, but it was not so popular. Now look: Seattle is Ichiro's town, and Japanese people are coming. I need...
...After 1954, whenever I heard the pledge recited (in the ritual stream-of-consciousness way that one says, "ThirtydayshathSeptemberAprilJune-andNovembe ralltheresthavethirtyone"), it sounded somehow tampered with and wrong. The original version had been grooved into my brain. I mistrusted the addition of under God first of all on unconscious aesthetic grounds. The new phrase, set off by tendentious commas, was a hiccup in the flow of the drone, the mumbled civic music, the school kids' om. Even as a callow youth, I sensed that someone had intruded an alien and politicized bromide into the pledge. Again, the adjacent word indivisible...