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...result is an industry in flux. Although condolences are hardly in order--last year the industry sold $7.5 billion in cards--sales are flattening and earnings are lackluster despite a robust economy. The industry enjoyed double-digit growth from the late '70s through the '80s. Wall Street, about as sentimental as a dollar bill, issued its own greeting to the industry recently: "Get lost soon." In a single day's trading in February, American Greetings, the nation's largest publicly owned greeting-card company, with $2 billion in annual revenues, lost $800 million in market value, tumbling...
...wars, it has been said, are civil wars. The boundaries of nations ever in flux, "are nothing to the bond of common humanity. The war in Kosovo will not depend on the guiding hand of NATO advisers, nor on the technological might its militaries have in store, nor even upon the realpolitik or game theoretic calculations of foreign policy advisors. It will be fought and decided, as war has always been fought and decided: town by town, hill by hill and house by house...
Susan Eaton '79, secretary of the Radcliffe College Alumnae Association said that keeping good employees is always harder when an organization is in flux...
WASHINGTON: Like a family's dirty little secret, General Augusto Pinochet is haunting Washington's corridors of power. "The U.S. government is deeply divided over what policy to pursue in response to Pinochet's arrest," says TIME correspondent Adam Zagorin. "Right now that policy is in flux." On Monday State Department spokesman James Rubin promised the U.S. would "declassify and make public as much information as possible" over human rights abuses in Chile under Pinochet; then on Wednesday he said that meant only that the U.S. would "review" the those documents. Rubin's shuffling is reflective of a fierce debate...
...Crimson travels to Princeton this weekend for the ECAC Championships, the premier event of the fall season. During this week of practice, it will have to finalize its lineup, which was put in flux by the slew of injuries. As defending ECAC champions, the women are still one of the favorites for this year's tournament, which will include many teams from the Brown Invitational, including Brown, Dartmouth, Virginia...