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...euphoria. Wednesday brings the revised productivity number for the second quarter - survey says a slight retreat from the former 2.5 percent to 2.0 percent. Being that we?re in the middle of a business-cycle inflection when layoffs and production cuts race each other to the ground, you may infer absolutely nothing of the New Economy?s long-term prospects from this news. Thursday brings up-to-the-minute unemployment-claims numbers for the last week of August, and a services report from today?s heroes at NAPM...
...tell the difference between rich women and white trash. I see women in Manhattan wearing leopard-print miniskirts, bustiers and stiletto heels, with platinum-blond hair, and the only way I can infer class distinctions is by the size of the dog they're walking. And with the ultrashort miniskirt coming into fashion, it was more pressing than ever that I find out how to differentiate haute couture from the Jersey mall...
...flying off into space like untethered children flung from a fast-twirling merry-go-round. Individual galaxies were spinning about their centers too quickly too; they should long since have flown apart. The only possibility: some form of invisible dark matter was holding things together, and while you could infer the mass of dark matter in and around galaxies, nobody knew if it also filled the dark voids of space, where its effects would not be detectable...
...guillotine, so the families would be denied a vivid satisfaction; instead they would see someone in a white coat bend over an I.V. tube run into the strapped-down killer's arm, and - they would infer, because they could not see it - delicately squirt lethal fluid from a hypodermic into the tube, like a nurse giving a sedative. And they would watch McVeigh go to sleep. This is "closure...
...Losers DANIEL ARAP MOI Kenyan President claims women have small brains. And we're to infer his brain is, what, big? JOHN CHAMBERS Leave your options at the door. Cisco Systems prez to re-trench 5,000 employees SPICE GIRLS Sporty to focus on solo work. Lovers of fine ensemble vocalizing are crushed Verbatim...