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...mileage option. As the other members, most of them boomers like me, climbed into the support van provided by Freewheeling Adventures Tours, I set off on my Trek hybrid. Five miles later I spotted a monster hill looming ahead. Behind it was another, and then another. As I panted upward, suddenly the van whirred into sight. Did I want a lift after all? Please! That night, after some exhilarating seaside riding, I dined on fresh scallops at a trendy Lunenburg restaurant and slept tucked into an antique four-poster in a Victorian...
...with the political and diplomatic reality that Palestinian statehood in the West Bank and Gaza is endorsed not only by the United States and the entire international community (the exceptions being those regimes that deny Israel's right to exist). The latest polls show statehood is also accepted by upward of 70 percent of Israeli voters as part of a final peace agreement. But Netanyahu's objective right now is neither to advance negotiations with the Palestinians nor even to win an election; it's simply to ensure that he, rather than Sharon, is Likud's next candidate...
...boilerplate was fittingly dualistic. "The information that has become available since the last [policy] meeting ... confirms that economic activity has been receiving considerable upward impetus from a marked swing in inventory investment," the Fed said in its statement. "Nonetheless, the degree of the strengthening in final demand over coming quarters, an essential element in sustained economic expansion, is still uncertain...
...next five years--a microcosm of the situation nationwide; the industry needs to attract 240,000 new workers each year, from project managers to iron workers, just to compensate for the exodus. The top tradespeople in their fields, such as plumbers, electricians, carpenters, bricklayers, roofers and painters, can make upward of $100,000 a year...
SAUTER: The other thing that's been going on for years is managing earnings quarter to quarter to make it seem as though business is on a nice, smooth, upward slope...