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...malls and office complexes -- has made deluges more dangerous by robbing the terrain of its natural ability to absorb rainwater. Water racing across concrete or asphalt travels up to 10 times as fast as it does across a meadow. Often it is funneled into streams and creeks too narrow, shallow and winding to accommodate the rushing runoff...
Miyazawa, fearful of adding to growing anti-Japanese sentiment in the U.S., did not want to send Bush home empty-handed. But the bargain struck in Tokyo will do little to cure the recession, create new jobs, or narrow the $41 billion U.S. trade deficit with Japan over the long term. Under pressure to open their markets, the Japanese agreed in the final hours of Bush's tour to find ways to buy more American cars, auto parts, computers, glass and paper. Some of these concessions were in the works long before Bush arrived; others sounded good, but were less...
When Kennedy ascended to the Presidency, his electoral victory was narrow and evidently depended somewhat on his impressive sweep of the crucial "dead people" vote. That was certainly no mandate on which to wind down the Cold War, especially for a candidate who campaigned by railing against a so-called missile gap that was the product of fevered anti-communist imaginations, and topped that off with a fire-eating inaugural speech about "a long twilight struggle" with the Russkies. He was, in short, exactly the kind of leader you would expect to get a lot of Americans up to their...
...right has shown enough strength in enough places so that it cannot be ignored. Democratic governments can put it down, but only if they demonstrate the strength to bring about renewed prosperity and the ability to offer a vision more compelling than the right's mean and narrow -- but unfortunately still attractive -- nationalism of blood and soil...
...jeans fit my big ass. They fit my roommate's narrow hips and my other roommate's long legs. This is because the Gap line is designed for different bodies types. Unfortunately, it does not accommodate all body types, but the Gap line is beginning to reflect the reality that body types vary. My roommates and I may all be trying to look the same, but at least we are able to do so now without manipulating (or would that be mutilating?) our bodies to fit the styles...