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WHAT'S THE IMPACT ON THE ECONOMY? High energy costs will shave up to half a point off GDP growth in 2006, predicts Stephen Brown, an economist with the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank--"a drag on the economy," he says, but not enough of one to tip us into recession. Still, slower growth means there will be pockets of pain. In Iowa, applications to the state's energy-assistance program are up 8%. Public schools, hit with high heating bills, are turning down the thermostat and spending less on field trips. David Callis, who grows corn, soybeans and wheat...
...interference in the daily pattern of New York makes a difference,” a salesperson at a small Upper East Side department store said. On the first day of the shutdown, both students and commuters voiced their concerns on the effects of the strike if it were to drag on. “I hope they reach an agreement soon,” Quinn said as the union and the MTA remained at a standstill. “I don’t think it’s going to be a matter of chaos so much as just...
These spare, mostly acoustic songs about death, loss and life's rearview mirror make for a draining listen. But they're not a drag because Young knows exactly how an album this thematically grim--he wrote and recorded it between being diagnosed with and treated for a brain aneurysm--needs to sound. At his most frightened (Falling Off the Face of the Earth), there's an easy melody and notes of assurance from the impeccably played instruments. And when he contemplates all his choices (The Painter) and wonders if he has got lost, the voices that rise behind...
...Space Committee held four student focus groups in the 2003-04 school year. But there seems to have been little formal effort to solicit student input between the final engineering and funding approval and the creation of rather firm architectural proposals.Finally, students cannot allow University Hall to continue to drag its heels with the construction timetable. It took a full year between the Committee’s recommendations and a final approval for the project, and the College must stand by its latest statement that the construction will be completed by the start of the 2006-07 school year. University...
...Neil Young Prairie Wind; $18.98 These spare, mostly acoustic songs about death, loss and life's rearview mirror make for a draining listen. But they're not a drag because Young knows exactly how an album this thematically grim-he wrote and recorded it between being diagnosed with and treated for a brain aneurysm-needs to sound. At his most frightened (Falling Off the Face of the Earth), there's an easy melody and notes of assurance from the impeccably played instruments. And when he contemplates all his choices (The Painter) and wonders if he has got lost, the voices...