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...year. Some experts even warn that the economy, burdened by high debts and a weak banking system, could fall again unless the Federal Reserve moves quickly to lower interest rates. Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan has kept rates firm to control inflation. But with the threat of a "double-dip recession" hovering over the economy, Greenspan may feel new pressure from the Administration to relax his monetary grip as the 1992 presidential election draws near...
Numerically the organization is in little immediate danger. After a dip in the '70s, membership surged during the Reagan era. Today 4.3 million young people belong to Cub Scouts and its precursor Tigers (for boys 6 to 10), Boy Scouts (boys 11 to 17) and Explorers (both sexes, 14 to 20). The two younger groups must swear loyalty to God and country. Explorers take no oath, and thus the 1.2 million-member branch has largely kept clear of courtroom battles but has weakened scouting's claim that religious faith is central to its mission...
Harvard's reputation seemed to be taking a dip when Polish President Lech Walesa, who was then the leader of the Solidarity movement, declined to speak in 1983 after earlier agreeing...
...still enjoying an extraordinary approval rate of 76% -- even Ronald Reagan stood at just 38% at a comparable point in his first term. But that represents a 10-point drop from March 7, one week after American and allied troops rolled into Kuwait City. White House officials took the dip in stride, claiming that they never put too much stock in the President's incredible postwar approval ratings and had always expected them to settle down to more realistic levels. "When he was at 70% it was great," said an official last week. "But 90% was just plain silly...
Arthur D. Little, a Cambridge-based think tank and consulting firm, is one of these companies. "We had a small dip in our travel the week following the air invasion of the 15th of January. Shortly after that time, our patterns went back to normal," says Nick Athanasiou, corporate manager for the company. He says the company now sends as many employees abroad as it did at this time last year...