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Damn! The economy is strong. Production, sales, incomes are up. More people are finding jobs. Damn! Nobody on Wall Street would use those exact words; they sound too hardhearted. But the essential thought is voiced by many analysts trying to explain last week's sudden bust in the stock and bond markets (which is no easy job). In extenso, their reasoning goes like this: a strong economy threatens a revival of inflation, at least in the minds of the governors of the Federal Reserve Board. It also means higher interest rates: automatically, because of rising loan demand from business...
...break on Boston's famed idyllic North Shore. After reading one too many articles about fun lovin' college students cavorting around on those magical Spring Break `94 beaches, I sprang into "seize-the-day" mode. "Heck, I can have a Spring Break `94 my own," I said. "Beach or Bust" was my mottodu jour...
Only last year, however, did officials realize the scale of the slaughter. A sting operation organized by TRAFFIC, an organization that monitors the wildlife trade for the World Wildlife Fund, uncovered a vast poaching network. In one bust last August, New Delhi police found 850 lbs. of tiger bone (equivalent to 42 tigers) and eight pelts. Sansar Chand, a dealer who surrendered last December, has nearly two dozen wildlife cases pending against him. Given the ease with which traffickers can manipulate India's glacial judicial system -- where cases can drag on for decades -- arrest is often only an inconvenience...
...maybe not," the seers chime. "They will not will this one time. Someone else will take the crown, Someone else with take the town, Another one, who no one trusts, The one that makes the bracket bust...
...begins scaring off visitors, it could kill the golden goose," warns Loyola University political scientist Ed Renwick. An equal concern is that crime and decay are impeding the effort to attract new business, which is vitally needed to replace thousands of energy-industry jobs lost in the 1980s oil bust...