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...hope," said Jose Richardson, caressing a baseball bat Tuesday night as he waited in vain for Sosa to hit home run No. 63. "When we see what Sammy has done, things seem possible...
...leaders to step in with the hard but manageable changes required to forestall full-scale recession. Over eight years, land prices crashed and then stock prices, and then the entire banking system threatened to cave in. But the country's politicians and bureaucrats repeatedly buried their heads in vain hopes that the problems would just go away. Having let its own ailments fester for years, Japan was in no position, despite its wealth, to help when its neighbors began to crumble...
...review her printed remarks on the university's website, where she artfully dodges the question. "Many people do things 'too much,'" she points out. "Eating quarts of ice cream at night, smoking three packs a day and sitting at the computer 10 hours at a time." I wait in vain for her to get to the too-much part. Later I screw up my courage and phone Donna Hoffman, a professor at Vanderbilt University who has conducted more studies of online usage than anyone else I know. "Color me baffled," she says. Hoffman believes the report is critically flawed...
...driving away with a good tip. Somehow, though, the Blue Bunny ice-cream truck seems to enjoy safe passage. Every few hours, the old-fashioned white van graced with a goofy baby-blue rabbit comes rolling up playing Pop Goes the Weasel. But the trip is mostly in vain. Kids have long ago learned that a nickel in their pocket is hardly enough to purchase a Popsicle, let alone a toasted-almond...
...away. And in the eyes of traditional telecom bosses, the antidote is conglomeration, a kind of circle-the-wagons strategy they hope can hold off competition's inevitable charge. The approach has roots in an earlier boom time. In the 1920s the nation's railroad firms consolidated in a vain attempt to stave off competition from cars. The phone companies--which think a large customer base will make it cheaper to develop and sell new services--believe this time will be different...