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...even during market downturns. His specialty is research into the effects that economic conditions may have on industries. "We look at the world from the bottom up," he says. Over the past three years, his stock portfolio managed to stay 20% ahead of the Standard & Poor's 500 index...
Personal income, a key gauge of buying power, jumped ahead by 1.2% in October, the biggest surge in more than two years. At the same time, the Consumer Price Index rose only .4% during the month, continuing a trend of moderate increases that this year have pushed the rate of inflation ahead only about 4%. Says Consumer Expert Fabian Linden of the Conference Board, a business re-search group: "All the pieces are in place for a lively Christmas season...
Sylvia Meagher, a lifelong United Nations employee who wrote an exhaustive index of the Commission's exhibits, has said that the Commission's report "pronounces Oswald guilty," while the hearings and exhibits "create a reasonable doubt of Oswald's guilt and even a powerful presumption of his complete innocence." Her goal was not to sniff out and expose conspiracy theories, but rather to question whether the FBI and the Commission acted in good faith...
...index of how easily the question of redistribution is sloughed off in the U.S. is the way issues of world economic inequality are discussed. Last year, when most members of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) were calling for more loans to less developed countries, a New York Times news article in September carried a revealing description of the problem...
What this indicates as much as anything is how one-sided the so-called rivalry really is. Pierson's volume on merely 50 years of Yale history lists in its index almost 70 references to Harvard, and more than 40 under the category Yale-Harvard comparisons. Morison's 300-year overview makes a scant 15 mentions of Yale. It is quite easy, in discussing Harvard, to ignore Yale...