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...House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday morning: Down the road, productivity will be back up. The New Economy will be fine, and in fact new inventory technologies mean it bounces back faster these days than it used to. But it still takes time for businesses and consumers alike to adjust to a slowdown that hits this hard and this fast, and "for the period ahead, downside risks predominate...
...This man isn't really a populist; he is a phony, a fraud." And though this perception is completely wrong in substance, it is enormously damaging and has to be dealt with. He has to regain the moral authority to call people to sacrifice.'...If he fails to adjust quickly, he will confirm the widespread belief that the biggest problem with the Clinton presidency is Clinton himself...
...Crosby hadn't been a kid when he first starred in movies (he was nearly 30 when "The Big Broadcast" came out) and as his career ripened he had to adjust. In "Here Come the Waves" he was still playing a crooner who makes the girls scream, but here he was impersonating not himself but the younger Sinatra, who had become the bobbysoxer's rage. By the 1950s Crosby was part of a parade of aging male stars (Bogart, Cooper, Gable) making love to actresses young enough to be their daughters. For Bing, art was mirroring life: He was costarring...
...find himself at the end of some very tough political rhetoric. In his first high-profile move in office, Evans Friday issued a rule that makes him the final arbiter over the hotly contested political issue of whether the initial population count is accurate or needs to be statistically adjusted. The move removes from the Census bureau the decision over whether to adjust the 2000 count to guard against an undercount of minorities and low income Americans. Evans says the move is about accountability. "I believe the decision-making authority for the 2000 Census should reside with a person selected...
...game of this magnitude is huge," Stone said. "It makes these kids understand that no matter what the situation, we're going to adjust and figure...