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That is particularly alarming because no matter what policies the new Administration pursues, the fate of the recovery will ultimately rest on the willingness of companies to start hiring again. So far, the outlook seems stubbornly dim. A recent American Management Association index of the hiring plans of 785 companies stands at a dismal 9.6 on a scale of 100. A growing economy would normally produce an index at least in the 30s. "This recovery will be limited to fewer jobs and lower incomes than at any other time in the postwar period," says Lawrence Mishel, research director...
...coming decade, Alcock and others believe, this collective ignorance may at last be dispelled. Small bands of determined researchers are embarking on elaborate hunts for the hidden side of the cosmos. Some, using telescopes, are taking aim at the dark halo that rings our galaxy, searching for large, dim objects like burned-out stars. Others are positioning electronic detectors in underground tunnels, hoping to entrap phantom particles that may be so prevalent that they drench the universe like invisible drops of rain. "Someday soon," predicts University of Chicago astrophysicist David Schramm, "one of these groups is going to strike gold...
...Liberals think it's about sexual harassment. Conservatives are sure it's about intellectual terrorism. Even Playbill splits the difference: half the front covers put a bull's-eye on the haughty college professor, the other half on his dim, dogmatic female student. Playwright David Mamet's off-Broadway zinger holds a mirror up to muddled modern life...
...future of America's cities will remain dim until economic opportunities there are improved, members of an Education for Action-sponsored panel said yesterday...
...offensive hopes--dim though they are--rest on wing Nicolas Perreault (16-17-33) and center Dominique Ducharme (13-19-32).This team could shock a few teams this year. It already pulled off a 4-3 upset of Providence, in what Coach Michael Gilligan calls, the team's "best effort...