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According to the research, married couples' assessment of the quality of their marriage starts to sink rapidly just after the "I do" and continues downward through the first four years. The quality of marriage plateaus after that first dip and then declines again during years eight, nine and 10--the "seven-year itch" part. Couples reported that the presence of children is, not surprisingly, a considerable stress on a marriage; the research states that having children at home prevented married couples from maintaining "positive illusions about their relationships...
...since April," says Baumohl. "Investors here are looking at the beginnings of a recovery in Asia and Japan, and suddenly they feel very overweighted in dollar assets." That means dollars and U.S. equities are getting dumped for yen and Japanese ones. If it keeps up, the Dow could easily dip below that vaunted 10,000 sometime this fall, but Baumohl doesn?t see the end of the U.S.? recent golden age. "I still don?t think the Fed is going to raise rates," he says, "and the economy is still fundamentally very solid." And what if the Fed does raise...
This year's return marks the first significant setback to Harvard's investors in years. Despite a 10 percent dip in endowment value last summer, the University managed to recover its losses and turn in a 20.5 percent return last year...
Harvard committed a substitution infraction on the next play, setting up first-and-15 and prompting Murphy to dip into his bag of tricks...
...Monday. "But we have to fund education, NIH, worker safety and other programs. It's a question of how we do it." The GOP is desperate not to be the ones to bust those 1997 spending caps (the ones on which all those mammoth surpluses are based) or dip into the Social Security trust fund. But they?re also loath to cut into programs that voters want, programs that Clinton can excoriate them for slicing up. So voil? ? the millennium just got a little longer...