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English Professor Peter J. Seng found the poem in early February while compiling an index of variations in post-1800 English poems. At that time he said he hoped to print the poem in a periodical of Romantic literature...
Hong Kong's financial markets reacted swiftly to the first business decision against Chinese rule by a major hong. The colony's Hang Seng stock index dropped 10.3%, to close the week...
...G.N.P. announcement touched off fears of an overheated economy that could bubble over into higher prices-fears that were not stilled by the report at week's end that the consumer price index rose only a modest .4% in February, a smaller increase than in January. If rapid growth continues and prices climb, the Federal Reserve can be expected to push up interest rates. They might eventually go high enough to cause a repetition of the spiral of 1980-81, when the record cost of borrowing brought on the 1981-82 recession...
However, Cabot said that the company has no deadline for finding a new manager, because most of the $700 million of investments Chase directed have been moved into a fund linked to the Standard and Poor's index of 500 stocks. By being indexed, the stocks perform roughly as well as the stock market, which has tumbled about 200 points since January...
...paint on the canvas looks sluggish and frozen, like cake icing. (In the early '60s, Morley did put the pigment on with icing nozzles.) Its dull turbulence parodies the violence implicit in expressionist paint handling. The heavy brush stroke is no longer an index of earnestness; it quotes strong feeling without necessarily endorsing it. Morley's blend of coolness and violence has some of the hypnotic impact of early Warhol. But it is far more complicated and nuanced, and it is free from overtones of chic...