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...With reporting by Bernard Baumohl/New York, Moira Daly/Toronto, Helen Gibson/London and Wendy Kan/Hong Kong
...TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl doesn't see any signs that Greenspan got any more than he bargained for. "The markets are having a little panic about how much this slowdown will affect earnings," he said (although investors warmed up again in the afternoon when Greenspan announced that technology -- gasp! -- was good for productivity). "But right now, it doesn't look like any more than the soft landing, from 5 percent growth to about 3.5 percent, that the Fed has been trying to engineer." In fact, says Baumohl, there are some on the Fed's Open Market Committee...
...more measured approach is used at Baltimore's Dr. Bernard Harris Sr. Elementary School, which mailed out self-scoring parent reports last fall. After parents rate themselves in areas like provides "pencil and school supplies" or "attended back-to- school night," children bring back the transcript. So far, says principal Lucretia Coates, the rate of return has been "overwhelming." One reason: children who hand in their parents' grades get entered in a raffle to win jewelry, yo-yos or Pokemon cards...
...Right now, I don't think the Fed will raise again," says TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl. "But the markets can always find a reason for uncertainty." Indeed, as more and more readings indicate that Cap'n Greenspan's economy is touching down softly and inflation-free, the narrower the range of possibilities in those feverish little investor brains. He could stand pat. He could hike by a quarter-point this month so as to beat election-season, when coaxing up unemployment for the good of the country gets politically tricky. But that'd be about...
...With a solid education in hand, Shalala moved into academia. From 1970 to 1972 she taught political science at Bernard Baruch College, and between 1972 and 1979 she taught politics and education at Teachers College at Columbia University...