re: pro forma profitable, except for inventory problems.
As Gail Collilns in NY Times said quoting Bush's Treasury Secretary:
"If you set aside Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, the safety record of nuclear is really very good."
Indeed,
She added:
"...the president has to do what he thinks best. He's the guy with the mandate, if you set aside the irregularities in Florida and the fact that he lost the popular vote.
O'Neill is onto something. This is a linguistic construct for our time:
• If you set aside the divorce, the "Love Nest" headlines, the cancer and the term limits, New York's Mayor Rudy Giuliani is in clover.
• If you set aside April and May, Jenna's been having a great freshman year.
• Maxwell Taylor Kennedy, a son of Robert Kennedy, dropped out of the Congressional race in Massachusetts yesterday. He had enormous political potential if you set aside an inability to read a prepared script, a tendency to giggle at inappropriate moments and an arrest record for an assault committed in the company of his cousin Michael Skakel, the current murder defendant.
• Aside from the script and the actors, "Pearl Harbor" was one heck of a movie.
• A friend who had been watching the all-execution-all-the-time coverage on cable TV yesterday reported that someone had put in a good word for Timothy McVeigh by saying it was sad that a person's entire life would be judged by the worst thing he did. If you set aside . . |
