Word: reals
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While we expand, we also contract. America Inc. has become a term for describing the unending mergers of vast companies--multibillion-dollar mergers, real money today. Oil companies, car companies, food companies, banks; everything comes together. Media companies become telephone companies. Telephone companies become software companies. Book-publishing companies are swallowed whole by companies that make music, movies and magazines. Nothing is wrong with these adhesions in principle, but some "products," like books, suffer. Not long ago, the large book publishers would take on a number of excellent but unprofitable manuscripts as a kind of intellectual duty, pro bono work...
...truism that anybody can grow up to be President. In addition to normally qualified candidates, those who have presented themselves as potential leaders of the free world include an apologist for Adolf Hitler; a professional wrestler who changed his name from the Body to the Mind; and a real estate magnate at once so ridiculous and self-confident that he is oddly mesmerizing. Indeed, watching the entire crop of Reform Party candidates vie for position is like watching dogs copulate in a public square: it's not pleasant, but you can't take your eyes off them...
...SYNC needs a new alias. Members of the wholesome pop quintet have been checking into hotels under the pseudonym Ron Jeremy, star of such X-rated fare as Wild Wild Chest and Black Cherry Co-Eds 3. This was fine until the real RON JEREMY took a room at the Westin in Edmonton, Alta., while the band was there. He was bombarded with phone calls from baby-sitters around the globe (apparently the alias isn't much of a secret) hoping to speak to their favorite 'N Sync-er. "I had some of the funniest conversations with these 12-year...
...every 10 vacation spots I looked into, I found maybe one that sounded good--and more often than not, it was booked, too far away or outrageously priced. For all the hype about the Net making searches easier, it often gives you too many options and too few real choices. All it was giving me was a headache...