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...year ago, rose at a yearly pace of less than 4% in May. But industrial production plummeted 21% last year, while capital spending slumped 13% and more than 11,000 companies closed their doors. Even unemployment doubled, to 2.2% in March (joblessness was confined mostly to seasonal and transient laborers). Lately, Japanese businessmen have been accusing the Liberal Democrats of "overkill...
...long that it's relatively easy to think about it as solid, consistent and unchanging. The plaque on the Lowell belltower may say Cognosce Occasionem--like the "Seize the time" Black Panther sympathizers used to scrawl on black boards in high school--but Harvard seems so much less transient than any high school, and its walls so far removed from the prisons where the government used to throw the Panthers, that the plaque hardly has much effect...
...facile equation, as Beatty does, is like collapsing the seven rings of hell into one, and subjecting the child shoplifter to the same tortures as the bloodthirsty murderer. If Nixon were to play George, he wouldn't simply neglect his girlfriend, his customers, and his associates for the transient pleasure of a good lay; he would place a tape recorder under the bed, to record the groans as evidence for possible blackmail. The reality of Orange County is not simply the flashy cars, the bright lights, the shiny mirrors of George's Los Angeles. It is the Orange County...
...samba music, actually realize those hopes and aspirations that so many of their fellow students find frustrated? Perhaps they do, and the old adage that money buys happiness has more truth than many would be willing to admit. But, alas, the pleasure of these sun-bathing souls must remain transient, and as they trickle back from the ski-slopes and the beaches, from the volcanoes and the jungles, the ecstasy of the fleeting week shrinks to the melancholy memory of a moment and expands into the imagery of a new mythology--the mythology of summer. As April lengthens into...
...heads a Pittsburgh-based foundation that bears her name. Followup, however, showed that Kuhlman's cures were something less than miraculous. Sufferers from migraine headaches, which are often caused by emotional problems, did feel relief after the healing service. So did people with bursitis, a painful but transient joint inflammation, and a few with multiple sclerosis, a cyclical disease that often gets better before it gets worse. But cancer victims remained noticeably unhealed. One cancer patient, who felt so good during the service witnessed by Nolen that she exercised onstage, died of the disease four months later...