Word: bernsteins
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Previewing the holiday season, analysts give Nokia the nod; Motorola's profitability lags Nokia's, and Motorola has been slow to deliver a camera phone in the U.S., a setback since sales of this item could double, to 16% of the industry total, in 2004. Writes Paul Sagawa of Bernstein Research: "The rest of the competition will eat away at its market share...
...Pancho Gonzales on the tennis court. He has fumbled handoffs as a training-camp quarterback for the Detroit Lions and missed baskets while working out as a forward for the Boston Celtics... He toured with the New York Philharmonic as a percussionist?and was severely chastised by conductor Leonard Bernstein... among other things [Plimpton] is editor of the Paris Review, a fine literary quarterly ... Says Polish-born novelist Jerzy Kosinski: ... 'He comes closest to the American conception of what a writer ought to be?that he should not just live off the imagination, like Proust, but should re-create...
...Mark Bernstein, author of a new book called Football: The Ivy League Origins of an American Obsession, described the tensions between Harvard and Princeton which led to an eight-year suspension of play between the teams...
...double the historical percentage--are settling for less pay. The net result of the various pressures on pay: in the first three months of 2003, median weekly earnings adjusted for inflation fell 1.5%, according to the U.S. Labor Department. That's the biggest drop since 1991, according to Jared Bernstein, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a research group based in Washington. Wage erosion partly explains why the Federal Reserve Board openly frets about the threat of deflation, a downward spiral in prices that can cripple an economy by making debt repayment more difficult and encouraging consumers to wait...
...lives than their mothers'. And their moms didn't have to contend with the avalanche of parental-advice books. There you are thinking you're doing a pretty good job, when along comes an author explaining how, with a bit more effort, little Jake can be turned into Leonard Bernstein. Or Donald Trump. Or both. What these books presume is that parenting is a science, when in fact it falls somewhere between an art and a combat zone. What they never take into account is the frazzled woman who is leading a double life--trying to be a good mother...