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- From: julie@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu (Julie Wright)
- Newsgroups: soc.singles
- Subject: Re: Nightline and Presidential Cantidates
- Message-ID: <JULIE.92Nov16193715@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 00:37:15 GMT
- References: <1992Nov14.005107.37442@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> <lgg8eiINNd6c@news.bbn.com>
- Sender: julie@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu (Julie Wright)
- Organization: Fans o' Humpty Dumpty
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- In-Reply-To: pdsmith@bbn.com's message of 16 Nov 1992 22:33:54 GMT
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- pdsmith@bbn.com (Peter D. Smith) writes:
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- >In article <1992Nov14.005107.37442@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> jm0i@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JOSEPH ALOYSIUS MCVEIGH) writes:
- >>I'm one of those purists who likes facts. By definition, a recession is a
- >>period of 2 or more consecutive quarters of GNP contraction. Note that the
- >>definition does not mention level of income, amount of wealth, or ability to
- >>spell "discretionary."
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- >Well, that's glory for you.
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- >(10 point trivia question: where's the quote from, and why does it apply?)
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- Maybe Dawn's offspring would know.
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- ---Julie
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- * loris, n. Any of several small, nocturnal, arboreal primates of the *
- * genera _Loris_ and _Nycticebus_, of tropical Asia, having dense, woolly *
- * fur, large eyes, and a vestigial tail. [French, probably from obsolete *
- * Dutch _loeris_, simpleton, clown.] ---- American Heritage Dictionary *
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