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Kerry supported more government intervention, attacking Weld for his opposition to raising the minimum wage, which has fallen to its lowest real level since the early 1950s...
...Lincoln's name." Can this be the loving, lighthearted man who taught Mary Gordon to value reading above all other things? "I am losing my father. He is disappearing," she writes of her researches. But she also finds she is losing herself. She had reached adulthood as a fallen-away Catholic intellectual (the thoughts of such a person are the themes of her novels Final Payments and The Company of Women). But now, in middle age, she wonders--not with her father's anti-Semitism, but simply with profound confusion--whether she is, in fact, a fallen-away...
Although Feldstein declined to discuss policies mentioned, he said a proposal to raise the minimum wage--which has fallen to its lowest real level since the early 1950s--was "not a major subject...
Another rainy afternoon has fallen upon the Yard, and that dreary lazy feeling is slowly beginning to retard any attempt to steep myself in the intricacies of fiscal policy or the wise words of Professor Martin S. Feldstein '61. No, I don't think Ec 10 will receive my attention today. Of course, wet afternoons aren't a time for study; they're a time for reflection...
Post executives really had little choice but to start a price war. Despite its heavy promotional efforts, the company's market share has fallen from 16.8% a year ago to 15.6% today. "If we had done nothing, we faced seeing a 15% market-share slide, to 13%," says John Bowlin, the president of Kraft Foods, the division of Philip Morris that makes Post cereals. Post was not losing share to Kellogg as much as to private-label brands, which can cost one-third as much as their national counterparts and have grown from 3% of the cereal market...