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...pass the increases on to our buyers." Morgan Stanley's Xie predicts that "at least in the short term, the world could see global inflation because of what's happening in China." The unhappy knock-on effect: to keep inflation under control, central banks around the world might begin raising interest rates, which would shave corporate profits and make it costlier for individuals to borrow money...
...Omaha, Nebraska. After a heart attack at age 46, the self-made millionaire, who suffered from high cholesterol, began buying full-page newspaper ads with such headlines as: "McDonald's, Your Hamburgers Have Too Much Fat!" His work led some fast-food chains, including McDonald's, to begin frying potatoes in vegetable oil rather than beef tallow and other companies to stop using highly saturated tropical oils in packaged snacks. He also was credited with helping bring about mandatory nutritional labels on food packaging...
...hedge, I will mention that I have not yet seen the film, which undoubtedly impairs my appreciation of the soundtrack. Perhaps this makes it unfair for me to judge this album, but the fact remains that past Tarantino soundtracks have been excellent to begin with: Association with their respective films has made them beatific...
Music fans who are far older than me often claim this is why classical is the only “truly” good music, because it rigorously explores the possibilities of tonal relationships and all that institutionalized dreck. Ironically, it was being entrenched in classical music to begin with that made me realize how simple (thus fundamental) it is to play with form. In order to give a sublime performance of Bach or Debussy, you don’t have to be blessed with superhuman skill and you don’t have to be a genius...
...contest, scheduled to begin at 3 p.m., will follow the Harvard-Princeton women’s lacrosse match set to begin...