Word: presenters
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Such reasoning must be abandoned, because in addition to reducing the United Nations to its present inefficacy, this thinking has catalyzed the current explosion in the Middle East. On this UN Day, apart from celebrating the ideals and labors of the United Nations, it is important that the international community make two realizations...
...politicking in the most old-fashioned sense of the word, except computers are doing much of the work that ward bosses used to. At Gore headquarters, data come together in a computer-generated image called the G2K Targeting Map, on which cities and states that present opportunities and require immediate attention glow an intense blue. The computer factors in poll numbers, historic Democratic performance, dates of and voter response to previous visits by the candidate, his running mate, family members or other surrogates. It highlights places that may respond to a sudden infusion of ad money or to "free media...
...what economist David Wyss calls "a perfect storm" that could turn the soft landing the Federal Reserve is trying to engineer into an outright recession sometime next year. Wyss, chief economist for Standard & Poor's, still expects a gentle slowdown that would lower growth from nearly 5% at present to a more sustainable 3.5% in 2001. But he also sees a 1 in 4 chance of a slump. "Bad things," he warns, "can happen to new economies...
CitySync wasn't as helpful at lunchtime--it gave me way too many restaurant listings, a number of which were halfway across town. If you're not into marathon walking, Vindigo's a better bet; it can sort its listings by distance from your present location. Over lunch I decided to catch a movie. Modo was the most helpful here. Not only did it give me accurate movie times, it also had the lowdown on which theaters had nice seats and big screens...
...there as Benvenuto Cellini is in the West. This is because he was one of the supreme masters of calligraphy, an art that matters only to specialists on the American side of the Pacific but is wholly central to Japanese and Chinese aesthetics. It's understandable, therefore, that the present show of Koetsu's work at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, though respectably attended, has not been packing in the crowds. This is a boon for those who go to see it. The fewer people looking over your shoulder when you're looking at one of Koetsu's exquisite moments...