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...written on it, and the practitioner performs both the diagnosis and the cure -- an exotic hand-and-body dance designed to "re-establish the balance of yin and yang" -- from any distance away. Thousands of visitors pour into the Philippine Islands to have local sleight- of-hand artists apparently dip bare-handed into their body to remove cancerous tumors. They dip into their bank accounts rather dramatically...
Chair David A. Aronberg '93 initiated thereallocation and, after the meeting, denounced aCrimson article which he said inaccuratelyclaimed he had promised to dip into the budgetsurplus this year to fun student organization...
...suggestion that no more rate cuts are in the offing. The stock market plunged 47 points Wednesday -- and finished the week down 9 points -- in reaction to more bad news: the economy barely grew during the fourth quarter, inching up only 0.3%, while the index of leading economic indicators dipped 0.3% in December. Despite evidence of a "triple dip" recession, an optimistic Greenspan testified that he detects some "very subtle" signs of economic recovery...
...race when it was not trying to roll back the gains of the '60s, the usual American response to inequality is to rename it, in the hope that it will go away. We want to create a sort of linguistic Lourdes, where evil and misfortune are dispelled by a dip in the waters of euphemism. Does the cripple rise from his wheelchair, or feel better about being stuck in it, because someone back in the early days of the Reagan Administration decided that, for official purposes, he was "physically challenged...
...Study of the California Economy. "Coming out of the gulf war, people thought it would last just two quarters." But while the economy did manage gains of 1.4% in the second quarter and 1.8% in the third, few experts doubt that the U.S. has become mired in a double-dip slump that for all practical purposes never really ended. "Everything was set for a typical recovery," says economist Gordon Pye, who runs his own New York City consulting firm. "But when employment did not increase and the waves of layoffs and restructurings continued, that really inhibited...