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...Somebody's got to take a big step. Once consumer confidence goes, it takes a long time to come back. We've got to stop this slide before people really hit the button...
From what you're seeing in the Macedonian capital right now, what are the prospects for halting the slide into civil...
Talk about a wild ride. Kristian Dicke and Richard Geibel, two Germans in their 30s who had been university roommates, launched their business-to-business exchange March 11, 2000. That was the day after the nasdaq peak, the beginning of the yearlong global tech-stock slide. Matchbid - which has since transformed itself into a software firm - has survived...
...what they saw and heard. The Dickensian tale of children who had been, in some sense, worked to death, was a chilling and all-too believable allegory for the worst kinds of excess in the Chinese countryside. Then Premier Zhu Rongji entered the picture, and the tragedy seemed to slide from debacle into farce. He surprised the villagers?and the rest of China?by blaming the village idiot. According to Zhu, the only fireworks in the building were brought in by a madman who wanted to blow up the school. In conversations with reporters, outraged peasants stuck to their story...
...clean-cut look. Fifi doesn't go for hulky men, because she feels like she might get crushed. She doesn't like Western men, because they're a little too hairy. What Fifi likes is slouched right in front of her, leaning against a pillar, watching her body slide around the dance floor...