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...these economic statistics, which so frightened the markets, actually tell us that higher growth is possible without inflation. The real rate of inflation for the first quarter was 2.1%, with no sign of any upward pressure; actual growth was understated because of the General Motors strike and the winter blizzard. And remember, inflation statistics are generally believed to be overstated at least...
...some things--for all our fears of global warning and a nuclear winter--we cannot much affect. Seasons teach us about transitions, for winter elides into spring as gently as remorse into regret, or adolescence into youth. And just when we assume that winter is gone, an unseasonable blizzard will come down to remind us we were wrong...
...READ WITH DISMAY YOUR ARTICLE "Caribbean Blizzard" [WORLD, Feb. 26]. Your remarks about "the Bird dynasty" looking the other way as drug traffickers operate in Antigua are unfair. Vere C. Bird has been a faithful servant of the people of Antigua and Barbuda; his two sons Lester and Vere Jr. have undergone the same kinds of political tests all other politicians face in democratic countries. For instance, it was Prime Minister Lester Bird who insisted on the public inquiry into Vere Bird Jr.'s involvement with an illegal transshipment of guns, placing his loyalty to the country above that owed...
Despite the record amount of snow, Harvard administrators have yet to cancel classes--the University has not closed down for snow conditions since the famed blizzard of 1978, according to former Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett...
Proving himself a master of the campaign photo op, Buchanan trudged through the snow to the Lexington Green battlefield to proclaim he is winning the war of ideas in the GOP presidential race, even if he faces an "uphill battle" in this week's blizzard of primary balloting...