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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though most of the Oct. 27 drop in the stock market was recouped the next day, prices have remained volatile. Sinai thinks, however, that the Dow Jones industrial average would have to sink to 7000 (vs. levels over 8200 at its August peak and about 7700 in mid-November) and stay there for a year to make people feel so poor that they would cut consumer spending sharply. Weinberg, meanwhile, sees a silver lining in market volatility. It may dissuade "Gladys and Gary in Indiana" from borrowing from their mutual fund or ira to buy a car or house. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW LONG CAN IT LAST? | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

...your hands hurt, go numb or tingle, or you drop things, stop typing, see a doctor, take rest breaks, and see our Website [http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/rsi/]," he says...

Author: By Rachel K. Sobel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Coping With RSI on Campus | 12/2/1997 | See Source »

Checchi has already started spending. Last week he bought $3.5 million worth of television time for ads that will run before the end of the year, the earliest ever for a gubernatorial race in California. After that, according to media buyers, Checchi will have to drop $1 million a week on TV ads to reach the state's 5 million primary voters. That could total $40 million, which would make the state's 1998 gubernatorial race the most expensive ever. Lieutenant Governor Gray Davis challenged Checchi this month to agree to the $6 million spending limit imposed by California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAN'T BUY ME LOVE? | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

...Drop in number of organized Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi groups, from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Dec. 1, 1997 | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

...preserve the former British colony's status under the dictum of "one country, two systems." China itself, strangely enough, is ranked Number 120, and deemed "mostly unfree." Beijing investors, evidently, have much to learn from their brothers to the south: like the thrill of watching the bottom drop out of the Hang Seng index, for example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Land of the Free | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

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