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Another avowed walker is Edward O. Wilson, Baird Professor of Science. "I used to run a great deal, three to six miles every day, but now I depend mostly on brisk walks. I just didn't have the time it took to run--an hour out of every day. And I find walking keeps me in pretty good shape. The nice thing about it is I can often work it into just walking around Harvard, from the Science Center to the Square...
...rates have dropped sharply in the past three months. The bench-mark prime rate charged for corporate loans, for example, has dipped at some banks to 11.5%, from 16% in July. Investors are increasingly confident that this dramatic progress on the inflation and interest-rate fronts will spur a brisk economic recovery next year...
...have to be in by 8. Junior high and even grade school are unexpectedly productive sources. Sometimes children simply take ordinary words and hold them up to the light at a slightly different angle, an old trick of slang. The ten-year-old will pronounce something "excellent" in the brisk, earnest manner of an Army colonel who has just inspected his regiment. (Primo means the same thing.) The movie E. T. has contributed penis breath, an aggressively weird phrase in perfect harmony with the aggressively weird psyche of the eight-year-old. In Minnesota, they say, for weird. Bogus...
...factory, a tragic circumstance for a place that has an unemployment rate of about 22%. De Lorean's project was obviously risky, but it was doomed in the end by his own mistakes and some events he could not control. Sales, buoyed by dealers' hype, were brisk when the car first came to market in the summer of last year. Some 3,000 DMC-12s' were sold in the first six months. But by December, bad weather and the recession's icy grip had cut sales to a fraction of their starting pace...
Several thousand copies of the Harvard Lampoon's Newsweek parody were released in the Boston area last week, a whole week ahead of schedule. Caught by surprise. Lampoon editors complained they were unable to launch the planned media blitz but local proprietors said yesterday sale have been unusually brisk...