Word: aug
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Elvis Presley never made it to university, but now the ivory tower is coming to him. For a growing body of Ph.D.s, Elvis is more than a pop icon--he's a treasure trove of subjects for scholarly research. Beginning Aug. 3, two dozen academics will present papers at the latest international conference on the King, at the University of Mississippi at Oxford. Vernon Chadwick, the conference director, who has made connections between Elvis' Hawaiian movies and Herman Melville's Polynesian novels, declares, "Within Elvis there is a multiplicity of topics of study." Among the conference's papers...
...sort and another to feel any certainty about anything or anyone... Popularity, however seemingly strong and widespread, can evaporate in an afternoon, and institutions that have lasted for centuries disappear overnight. So I can but conclude by simply saying, 'God bless the Prince and Princess of Wales.'" --Aug...
...mount a third-party bid. He now has less than a week in which to woo at least 10% of the Reform Party's 1.3 million petition signers. If enough of them put his name on their draft ballots, he will be invited to speak at the party convention Aug. 11 in Long Beach, California. Then participants will vote by mail, phone or E-mail. Independent monitors whom Perot has hired but whom he will not name will tally the results, and the winner will be announced Aug. 18 in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania...
...people he was proud of them for making the election "free and fair." He took a call from Bill Clinton, and they chatted for 25 minutes. Later a White House official said Yeltsin had confessed to campaign fatigue and was planning to take a vacation after his inauguration on Aug...
...believe the key signals of inflationary danger are bottlenecks in the economy: shortages of labor or goods that drive up wages and prices. Apparently he sees no conclusive signs yet that such bottlenecks are developing, so the Fed has put off any action on rates, perhaps until its Aug. 20 meeting...