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...have also been humming: Commerce said new orders rose for the fifth straight month in December, and a survey of private purchasing managers found that the advances continued in January. While the unemployment rate rose to 6.7% in January from 6.4% in December, that reflected a change in the method of calculating the rate. Under the old method, joblessness would have fallen to 6.3% last month...
...innocent, and a little boy who has his arm severed by a passing train. In a climactic scene, one horrible man, a whip-mean, pockmarked little sheriff, literally eats another horrible man, the abusive husband, whom the ladies have barbecued and served up in their restaurant as an ingenious method of disposing of the corpse. Interesting fantasy: Render the heroic women crypto-sapphic, mutilate the men, or cook them, and reduce one to unwitting cannibal. Let the one good male in the bunch be a sort of big black watchdog, faithful and sexually neutered, probably the great grandson...
...table has been set up by the door. A variety of rather interesting titles vaguely relating to love adorn the display. Perhaps more appropriate for the self-help section, one book entitled How to Attract Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere advocates that singles should flirt using the "repeat, rephrase, reflect" method of conversation to attract maximum partners...
...endless time spent on Earth to those who are not "saved"; but the phrase also describes the "indefinite' nature of documentary film making itself. Without script or multiple shots the documentary format relies on editing the shots into some cohesive story. This style uses a "catch as catch can" method to obtain material. To compound this difficulty, McElwee agonizes over the objectivity of the documentary genre. For this reason, it is no surprise McElwee only releases a film about every five to ten years...
Nathans says she recognizes that this new method will cause some inconveniences for students who do not have accounts or do not like to use computers...