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...sputtering recovery might just be starting to hum. Inflation is down to a barely visible 2.5%, and low interest rates are going lower. Last week Morgan Guaranty and Harris Trust and Savings Bank dropped their prime lending rate half a percentage point, to 5.5%. Under Clinton, unemployment has also fallen, from 7% to 6.7%, with the economy generating an average of 152,000 new jobs each month -- roughly twice 1992's pace. Stocks are up to record heights. Investment in plant and equipment is hitting levels not seen since 1984. Auto sales are at their highest since 1989; single-family...
Harvard students from southern California have stayed close to their radios and TV sets over the past few days, wondering whether their homes and families have fallen victim to more than a dozen brush fires which have burned nearly 100,000 acres in California since Wednesday night...
...over recent years these options have fallen in number. Courses devoted to more rigorous forms of scientific writing and to writing about economics have disappeared as teachers have reached their four year appointment limits...
Another artistic-environmental endeavor involved a rotting log. The lack of nutrients in deciduous forest soil often encourages various plant life to take root in fallen trees...
...pillar of the state." Here the dreams of all of the citizens of the empire are brought and interpreted, in the hopes of finding within them a "signal [sent] to the earth" by Allah. Omens in the forms of dreams are sought because "the interpretation of that dream, fallen like a stray spark into the brain of one out of millions of sleepers, may help to save the country or its Sovereign from disaster." Every week, a Master-Dream is sent to the Sultan, supposedly containing information crucial to the governing of the empire. The dynamics of the Palace...