Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also determined to keep the family's deliberations--and its sorrow--out of view. When she found out that someone from the family was offering reporters details of life inside the compound, she asked Ted to shut that down. One of John's closest friends, former Grateful Dead lyricist John Perry Barlow, said he "paid dearly" for appearing on TV. Though he'd already booked a flight from New Orleans to New York for the memorial service, he pointedly wasn't invited...
...strange to say, has been his entire family, which, for all its calamities, has remained a family in the public view. Love or hate the Kennedys, there is no family in American history like them--not the Adamses, not the Roosevelts. They may lack the blue-blood lineage, but they have stuck together (even if the glue has sometimes been messy), have forged and sustained a civilization before our eyes. Kennedy was headed for a family wedding when he went down. When one of them goes, the ideal of family is at once injured and made intense, and, divorce statistics...
...George magazine poured into the office, just to be together. "It's incredibly somber and sad here," said one. "We're watching this stuff on TV and it's all so surreal." Kennedy's corner office remained closed and locked. From his office windows, he had a distant view of the Statue of Liberty; on the walls were pictures of his wife and his father and mother, as well as political bumper stickers and a few photos of Kennedy himself when he was younger...
Here's my view: the auto cycle is nearing an end. SUV sales in the first half of the year were up 11.2%, vs. an increase of 18.4% in the first half of 1998, reports a research firm, Autodata. If the trend holds, this will mark the slowest growth for SUVs in years. That puts profits under pressure because it takes three sedans to generate the profit...
That left the winter-green Konica Revio as my favorite, until I noticed that you can't operate the self-timer with any special settings like red-eye reduction, landscape mode or night view. Instead you have to buy a $25 remote control (also available for the Elph and Vectis) to do the trick...