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...Federal Reserve reported that U.S. industrial output from the moribund manufacturing sector, after a 0.4 percent dip in February, jumped 0.4 percent in March, surprising analysts and raising anew the old question: Will the Fed move sooner, or later? TIME senior economics reporter Bernie Baumohl weighs the data and shines up his crystal ball...
...Right now, I think we're bouncing around at the bottom of the cycle, where the economy is basically standing still and could either start to slowly pull out of it or take a further dip into a contractionary phase...
...known as ''cocooning,'' has produced a boom of its own. Consumers spent more than $9 billion renting videotapes in 1990, up 13% from the previous year and nearly twice the $5 billion they paid to see new releases at theaters. Home entertaining is decidedly back to basics. Remember onion dip? The Mom Rule has re-emerged as America's primary meal- planning guide: if she never heard of it, don't serve it. With a couple of children in tow, mothers and fathers simply don't have time to hunt for goat cheese and sun-dried tomatoes in the supermarket...
...become clear that town-gown relations have taken a southward dip in recent years," said Councillor Kathleen L. Born...
...science has so many phobias on the run, does that mean that the problem as a whole can soon be considered solved? Hardly. Like all other emotional disorders, phobias cause a double dip of psychic pain: from the condition and from the shame of having the problem in the first place. Over the years, researchers have made much of the fact that the large majority of phobia sufferers are women--from 55% for social phobias and up to 90% for specific phobias and extreme cases of agoraphobia. Hormones, genes and culture have all been explored as explanations. But the simplest...