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Once housing issues have been considered, the FAO must also consider the cost of day care. While Payanzo currently avoids these costs with the help of her live-in mother and boyfriend, Ocon had a tougher decision to make...

Author: By Georgia N. Alexakis and Lori I. Diamond, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Harvard Assists Student Mothers | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

Sporting a pair of black alligator cowboy boots, he's talking tougher, negotiating harder and mincing words less than ever during frequent rants about an industry he says is desperately out of touch with its core consumer. "A lot of these owners have big egos," Ford says. "They like to talk, but few of them like to listen. But they should, because pro sports is in serious danger of alienating the average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FORD IN FORD'S FUTURE | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

Things are a lot tougher for the U.S. Thanks largely to the current economic boom, America's emissions have been growing while Europe's have declined. The only way to reverse that trend is to slash oil and coal use by upgrading the efficiency of cars, factories and power plants. But such conversions could be extremely expensive and would throw thousands of energy workers out of their jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CLIMATE CHANGE SUMMIT: HOT AIR IN KYOTO | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

...rate for all member countries. But an interest rate that curbs inflation won't do much to create jobs during the highest European unemployment since World War II. If confidence in the single currency is shaken, investors will buy U.S. dollars, driving up their value and making U.S. exports tougher to sell overseas. "If the euro breaks up in the end, that would really be catastrophic for all," says Zonis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WORST-CASE SCENARIOS | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

...Long Island, N.Y. (it takes three to five years), where they feed for a year on the defenseless spider crab as a training exercise before they take off again and swim down to the Chesapeake Bay area in Maryland, where they eat the much tougher blue claw crab for which the Long Island boot camp has prepared them? Needless to say, they made my inventory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THANKSGIVING INVENTORY | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

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