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...Bush team is counting on growing out of the deficit. If economic activity is robust, the thinking goes, revenues from taxes will increase despite lower rates. Thus far, the economy is doing its part to make that happen, churning in the third quarter at a scorching 8.2% pace. Job production appears to be inching back, and consumer confidence is at its highest level in more than a year. Deficits are bad, White House aides concede, but slavish concern about them--which they associate with Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin--would have kept them from passing the tax cuts they argue...
...three points against the Big Red last season and whose goal clinched Harvard’s double-overtime win in the 2002 ECAC championship game, thinks his team is fully capable of withstanding the weekend’s pressure. In fact, he sees it as a good change of pace to leave the Bright Hockey Center after a five-game homestand...
...article on the mental-health crisis in Asia not only revealed gruesome details of how the mentally ill have been discarded and pushed aside-owing to the increasing pace and pressure that are characteristic of most countries in Asia-but also raised the question of who, exactly, is mentally ill here. Is it those who cannot control how they behave and react to situations, or is it those so-called normal people who have turned a cold shoulder toward their brethren despite possessing the knowledge and skill required to treat them? In fact, the latter better qualify as ill, because...
Relocators warn that acclimating to smaller-town life can take time, particularly for former city slickers addicted to a fast pace. Carol and Kevin Conway fled their lives as Silicon Valley technology executives in the mid-'90s and now run business-service companies in Fort Myers. At first, says Carol, 47, "I was staggered by the lack of competitive drive, the lack of the push-push-push mentality." It took a few years for her to learn that "people who move to secondary markets like this have got to chill." She's even stopped wearing panty hose to work...
...while they’re trying to keep quiet to avoid disrupting the action onstage. Any company would be proud of this production’s skill with the gag coordination and choreography called for in Frayn’s script, but the act’s pacing in this staging was so breakneck that a considerable proportion of the jokes flew past either without being noticed or understood. While it’s unlikely that any production could pull off this act in such a way that its audience could understand everything that was happening, a small decrease...