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...tenor provided particularly potent fuel, as they, face to face, improvised harmonies, some of which melded seamlessly with the tune. Others that didn’t quite work were nonetheless commendable for their innovation. Free to experiment beyond the confines of chords or melodic conventions, Scofield and Blake fed off each other, reaching daring levels of free-form creativity...
...economy is definitely weakening. The Labor Department delivered a bit of a reality check to Wall Street and Main Street alike Friday by reporting that unemployment rose in March to 4.3 percent, the highest in 20 months. The markets, understandably pessimistic about getting fast relief from the Fed, took Main Street's side for once and took a morning spill on the news...
...Michael Milken and Donald Trump have discredited the era's role models as well. ''The 1980s showed how ugly this country could be, like racism did,'' says April Gilbert, a Stanford M.B.A. and shipping executive who hopes to join a nonprofit company soon. ''In the 1980s I was fed up and almost angry with the behavior of people in this country,'' says Stuart Winby, manager of Hewlett-Packard's Factory-of-the- Future program. ''Those kinds of values are just empty. I'm really sated with gadgets, things, adornments and all that stuff.'' Many people were awakened by individual experience...
...Wouldn't be any worse? O happy day! Throw in some Street-beating numbers from Alcoa (for the Dow) and some bullish chatter - by analysts on Yahoo and eBay, and by Fed governors about the U.S.' chances of dodging a recession - and the market party was on. Both the Dow and the NASDAQ shot up early and stayed up late, and by day's end the industrials and techs had notched gains of 402 and 146, respectively. (That's 8.9 percent for the currently microscopic NASDAQ, by the way, its third-biggest percentage gain ever...
...from public ire. "The unions know they've got the management in a very tough place. But the unions could risk a certain backlash from the public - if they start staging strikes, the public could say, 'Hey, these unions are keeping us from our vacations.'" If all else fails, fed-up airline customers should hope for an election-year meltdown on the tarmac: Even the most incensed public interest group would pale, of course, in comparison to any one senator kept from even one minute of his flesh-pressing rounds by a galling airline delay...