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...40th anniversary of brown v. board of education on May 17 unleashed a torrent of earnest commentary on the nation's op-ed pages. Story after story deplored America's lack of racial progress since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down segregation with that landmark decision. Somehow all the hand-wringing analysis overlooked a small but telling example of how far some blacks have come during the past four decades: the case of Joseph Jett...
...SUPER-UPLIFT bra -- a high-tech, cleverly marketed 90's version of the old-fashioned push-up bra -- was introduced two months ago with a torrent of hype. Demand, however, has not been uniformly distributed...
...Whitewater Torrent...
...days had passed since the Liberal Party's landslide victory, but Jean Chretien was raring to go into action. The man who will be Canada's 20th Prime Minister does not take office until this week, but at his first postelection press conference he plunged into a small torrent of pronouncements. "It's time to pull the country together, time to get to work," Chretien declared. He clearly meant it. So eager was he to get on with his busy schedule that he fled the planned 45-minute news conference after just 22 minutes -- only to find that the limousine...
...millions of Americans who have poured a record torrent of their hard- earned cash into mutual funds, this should be the best of times. Last Thursday the Dow Jones industrial average went over 3700 for the first time ever, bearing with it the yields on many stock and bond funds. The average aggressive-growth fund has risen 29% in the past 12 months. Corporate-bond funds gained 13% overall. Commercial banks, fully aware how anemic their certificate-of-depo sit rates look in comparison, are actively luring customers into the wealth-generating world of funds. As a result, mutual funds...