Word: uglier
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...cancer. He's denied all over again any non-professional relationship with former aide Christyne Lategano. He's even admitted that his woes have moved him to tears - privately, of course - and he's gone into full reporter-scolding mode as the questions about his crumbling private life get uglier and uglier. But what about the Senate...
...lose the K-Tel cheap-and-awful stigma. For instance, Essential Selections, one of the major British DJ mix labels, announced that they're starting to release mix albums in the U.S. My question is, how come American compilations ("Total Hits '99," etc.) are designed to look so much uglier than their glitzy British equivalents, even if the quality of songs is just as good (or bad)? Walk into Tower or HMV and compare...
There was a moment last week, though, when Washington seemed to be descending into an uglier version of its usual gun-control warfare. Wayne LaPierre, the N.R.A's executive vice president, tore into Clinton by charging that he is "willing to accept a certain level of killing to further his political agenda." If that weren't inflammatory enough, LaPierre drove home his point in a separate interview by accusing the President of having "blood on his hands" for the death of a former Northwestern University basketball coach whose murderer slipped through existing gun-control laws. In the background of this...
...outlook for bank stocks couldn't be any uglier. We're a lock for higher short-term interest rates when the Fed meets March 21, and a rate boost or two after that seems likely before summer. Rising short-term rates squeeze bank profit margins and, more important, dampen loan demand. That's why bank stocks have been crashing faster than your favorite ATM, shedding 40% of their value since interest rates started climbing rapidly more than a year...