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...brave new world of deregulation, airlines have foundered from a deadly mix of overexpansion and downward pressure on fares. Then there is Midwest Express Airlines, an upstart based in Milwaukee, Wis., that pampers customers with wide leather seats, free champagne and provisions that arrive on china--and thus far has a habit of pulling premium fares from passengers' pockets...
...number of Faculty hasn't grown and Faculty teaching loads have gradually drifted downward," Bok says, hypothesizing that the larger increase in the number of classes Harvard saw in the late '60s and early '70s was due to the growing number of Faculty members...
...sizes of the structures within the brain. But this latest finding should help researchers understand exactly what goes wrong when the brain is overwhelmed by hopelessness and, perhaps one day, help prevent the millions of Americans who may have inherited a propensity to depression from falling into the downward spiral of despair...
...have fallen at least 20%. The worst is over, you think? That's way too optimistic for me. Manley studied the past five bear markets, defined as a drop of at least 20% in the Standard & Poor's 500. In each case, the day the S&P started downward, the average stock (Smith Barney monitors 4,500 of them) had already fallen 19%. About like today. Look at popular stock funds like PBHG Growth and Twentieth Century Vista, down nearly 20% in the first quarter. When the guy buying stocks on his credit card gets this news, he'll start...
Charles was sent to psychiatric hospitals several times in the '80s, first in 1984 after breaking the nose of an elderly Grantham woman he considered a "government agent." But after each hospitalization he refused help and drifted away, spiraling downward. Retracing his father's footsteps, Lachenmeyer discovered that doctors and caseworkers had tried hard to help. "I was startled at how deeply involved they were with my father," he says. The elderly woman Charles had attacked turned out to be a retired psychiatric nurse who agreed to drive more than an hour to meet Lachenmeyer's film crew...