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...where's the recession? Traditional economic theory holds that every business upturn ends in a downward slide of sagging sales, declining profits and disappearing jobs. But when TIME brought together five internationally renowned experts during the World Economic Forum Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, an intriguing question floated through the clear Alpine air: Has the U.S. economy--the world's largest and most influential--banished the business cycle? Has the combination of high technology, globalized markets and unprecedented labor flexibility created a new paradigm of continual growth that can serve as a model for the rest of the planet...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan told the Senate Finance Committee Thursday that the Consumer Price Index should be adjusted downward, and called for the creation of an independent commission to monitor future increases. Greenspan, who has long pushed for an adjustment to the CPI, told Senators he fully agreed with a December report that the index was overestimating inflation by 1.1 percentage points annually, an error that will cost the government $1 trillion over the next 12 years in cost-of-living increases and lost tax revenue. "Greenspan has been pushing for an adjustment to the CPI for years...
...Crimson's Jo and junior Sandie Stringfellow ended Harvard's downward slide with a tie for first in the 50 meter freestyle in a time...
Year after year, Schwartz looked handsome and sturdy. All the while, his T cells ticked downward. In 1992, when they dipped below 500--the normal level is around 1,000--Schwartz's doctor put him on AZT, one of the few drugs then available that attack the virus directly. Both understood that it would fail after a while. Later Schwartz added 3TC, another antiviral. AIDS took a first cuff at him anyway. He began experiencing memory loss and having difficulty concentrating. Every few weeks, something that felt like the flu would send him to bed for days. In the summer...
Someone who sees the society in an irreversible downward spiral will presumably take it for granted that even if young people gave up video games and mindless sitcoms as well as comic books and rock music, it would only be because they'd found something dumber-- sewing their toes together in an ornamental fashion, maybe, or eating dirt. He'd respond to the stories I saw with a weary "So what...