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...Sony continued to roll out variations on its theme, adding such innovations as AM/FM receivers, bass boost and auto-reverse on later models. Sony even made a solar-powered Walkman, water-resistant Sport Walkmans and even devices with two cassette drives. But cassettes, like any technology, weren't going to last forever. With the introduction of compact discs in 1982 the format began to go the way of the 8-track itself...
...only about a 50-50 shot of celebrating their 35th birthday. Researchers discovered that those who believed they were likely to die young were more likely to make potentially life-threatening choices - such as getting into violent fights or having unprotected sex with multiple partners - than teens who weren't expecting an early death...
...major problem that led to the crisis was that financial institutions--especially the largest, most complex and important ones--weren't held to a high enough standard. In boom times, that problem wasn't visible, but those firms turned out not to have the capital and liquidity cushions they needed in times of true stress. Our plan fixes that too. There are a whole range of areas--from consumer protection to the establishment of a coordinating council of regulators--where our plan puts in place measures that would have made it more unlikely for things...
...love. You just know that her early nastiness will require a public confession and that if she mentions she can't swim, she will get embarrassingly wet. But through all the creaky scaffolding, one can catch glimpses of the fine comedy this could have been - if only the characters weren't cardboard, the plot not a course in corrective behavior. Reynolds has a gentle, manly appeal, and Bullock, when Margaret cracks into humanity, lets her charm radiate like a lighthouse beam over a sea of sludge...
...Since the 1944 crop, it's been five Best Picture nominees. And for a few decades, the voters admitted all manner of films to the annual quintet: noir (Double Indemnity), westerns (High Noon), comedies (Father of the Bride) and a slew of musicals. They often weren't anywhere near the best pictures, but at a high-mediocre level, there was a welcome breath of selections...