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...others vent about everything: the Republicans' utter absence of a message, the Democrats' lethally effective get-out-the-vote effort. "They were unbelievable," one of the leaders said to Newt. "They kicked our ass on the ground." Gingrich was mostly quiet. He listened. "He was in a state of shock," says one participant. It was different an hour later during the "listen only" conference call with members. This time Newt talked a lot, but he made no sense. He blamed the election on the unions, on black turnout driven by scare-tactic radio ads, on the fact that the Senate...
...small as a dust particle could blast a hole nearly half an inch across in a solar panel or a layer of insulation. Equally threatening is the intense heat of impact, which would instantly vaporize the meteoroid and convert it to an ionized gas, or plasma, that would shock the spacecraft with an electrostatic charge. "If that charge got into some of your data circuitry," Riegler says, "it could wipe out data...
...shock," she said. "He wasprobably one of the most popular figures in ourcollege...
...suffering will never lose its shock," Bailey said. "It was disturbing to see even after the war how the Jews were treated...
...attractive to investors. And with the euro, American businesses and travelers could save as much as 50% of the transaction costs they now pay to convert dollars into multiple European currencies. Says David Bowers, a European investment strategist with Merrill Lynch in London: "This will be the biggest shock to the global financial system since the move away from fixed exchange rates...