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...economy began to pick up in the latter half of 1985, buoyed by heavy consumer spending. Outstanding installment credit jumped 15%, to a record $530 billion. Shopper confidence was partly the result of good news in the job market. Unemployment inched downward from 7.3% in January to 7% in November...
...academic year, 26 professors signed a letter to Summers and Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby calling on Harvard to reverse the downward trend in tenure offers made to women...
George Hicks, a columnist for The Record, HLS’s weekly paper, warned his peers not to be surprised if they heard a “loud, grinding sound.” That, he explained, would be “the glass ceiling sliding back downward another couple feet...
...ball] took a kind of downward spin hop at the last minute,” Vance said. “I thought I had it in my glove but it wasn’t there...
...Wall Street trader could make a killing if he got advance notice of the Commerce Department's quarterly estimate of the country's economic growth. On the day it is released, that statistic can send the financial markets into a sharp upward or downward spurt. Thus Government officials became alarmed last July and then again in September when an accurate GNP estimate was circulating among traders the day before its official release. In an effort to find the source of the leak, the Commerce Department has called in the FBI, which last week was giving voluntary lie-detector tests...