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Beat slumps in his chair. He picks his nose. He languorously runs a woman's comb through his hair. At times he appears defeated by the turgid subject and the mediocrity of assembled talent. Gradually, the teal and purple hibiscuses on his Hawaiian aloha shirt descend lower behind his gargantuan desk. The show is a bore, and Beat's not afraid to admit it. Who do you think the TV audience identifies with: the kimono-clad manga artist tendentiously making a point about how Japan isn't ready to host the World Cup, or Beat and his flagrant disdain...
...damage to its prestige that the crash and the grounding have caused. People paid thousands of dollars more than for regular airliners to fly the Concorde, not only for its speed but also for bragging rights. "The Concorde meant getting pampered," says Richard Aboulafia, an aviation analyst at the Teal Group in Fairfax, Va. "Uncertainty about the plane eliminates part of the cachet that was crucial to the Concorde's success...
...share of the launch market looks shakier still. In the 1980s, the U.S. controlled 75% of the world's commercial-launch business; that figure is now about 45%, with new competitors on the horizon. "Until Lockheed and Boeing sort out the glitches," warns Marco Caceres, an analyst for the Teal Group in Fairfax, Va., "they are not going to compete...
...more productive elsewhere? The MAC is filled with rusty weight machines from before the crossing of the Mayflower, there is not a single library open for 24-hour study, boosts to financial aid could help right the rising racial imbalance of the student body and the forfeit of electric-teal chemicals could give the typically low-skilled landscapers and other Harvard employees a living wage. For starters...
...more productive elsewhere? The MAC is filled with rusty weight machines from before the crossing of the Mayflower, there is not a single library open for 24-hour study, boosts to financial aid could help right the rising racial imbalance of the student body and the forfeit of electric-teal chemicals could give the typically low-skilled landscapers and other Harvard employees a living wage. For starters...