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... "Sister Marie, your room isn''t ready yet. We''re sending you to the French Riviera for a couple weeks to relax." After a week, Sister Marie phoned St.Peter to confess she had smoked a cigarette. St.Peter said, "We can forgive you." A week later, when she was ...

한국경제 | 1999.07.17 00:00

[ Clinton''s Cosmetic Poverty Tour ] As President Clinton travels across the country this week visiting poor areas, he should stop referring to them as "pockets" of poverty. It is not just a matter of pockets. Persistent poverty is endemic in cities ...

한국경제 | 1999.07.14 00:00

Two old men sat on the porch of the retirement home every afternoon. Two marriage-minded old ladies set their sights on these old men. The first day, they dressed up in their finest evening gowns and walked past the porch. The men didn''t even lo...

한국경제 | 1999.07.14 00:00

No matter which girl he brought home, the bachelor found disapproval from his mother. A friend gave him advice. "Find a girl just like mother-then she''s bound to like her. Weeks later, he encountered the friend. "Just like you said I found a gi...

한국경제 | 1999.07.08 00:00

... mistake," said the doctor, "is in waiting until bedtime. You must take advantage of the very next time you both are in the mood" A week later the doctor happened to meet the man who now looked very happy. "The other night we were having supper," explained the man. ...

한국경제 | 1999.06.26 00:00

... makes it virtually certain that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates at the end of this month. Japan reported last week that its economy grew at a remarkable annual rate of 7.9 percent in the first three months of 1999. That followed declines in five ...

한국경제 | 1999.06.23 00:00

... church, the minister decided to abandon the subject of water-skiing and to deliver an extemporaneous sermon on sex. Later in the week a woman of the church met the wife in the supermarket and complimented her on her husband''s magnificent talk. "He seemed so sure of himself ...

한국경제 | 1999.06.08 00:00

[ Running Out of Steam... ] Last week two Internet stocks ended the first day of trading down from their offering price, and three others turned in relatively lackluster performances. Whether the Internet sector will firm up or remain shaky is anybody"s ...

한국경제 | 1999.06.02 00:00

북한은 윌리엄 페리 미국 대북정책조정관이 전달한 포괄협상안에 대해 분명한 의사표시 없이 검토하겠다는 입장을 표명한 것으로 알려졌다. 이에따라 한.미.일 3국은 당분간 북한측의 태도를 주시하며, 향후 북한 이 보일 여러가지 행동패턴에 대비한 준비작업에 들어갔다. 정부 고위당국자는 30일 "페리의 포괄협상안은 김정일 국방위원장에게도 전달된 것으로 알고 있다"며 "북한으로서도 검토할 시간이 필요할 것"이라 고 말했다. 이 당국자는 또 "...

한국경제 | 1999.05.30 00:00

[ Economics of Unemployment ] Alan Greenspan doesn"t think you should get a raise. And he doesn"t want you to feel too secure in your job, because otherwise you might demand that raise. I"m not putting words in his mouth. A few weeks ago, addres...

한국경제 | 1999.05.26 00:00