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...Other rain peaks came at about the same interval after other meteor showers. The explanation, said Bowen, was clear: meteor showers seed the top of the atmosphere with microscopic dust particles that make clouds form droplets big enough to fall to the ground as rain. The 30-day lag between the meteor showers and the rain, said Bowen, is accounted for by the time it takes the dust to filter to cloud level from the top of the atmosphere...
...years, Harvard Stadium sat silent on Registration weekend. The Ivy schedule is a little late this year; action doesn't begin until this Saturday. (Every seven or eight years, the Ivy schedule will have to be "updated" and brought forward by one week to make up for calendar lag...
Higher Savings. Consumer spending is a paradox: it stood up better than most other indicators during the recession, but thus far it has lagged somewhat behind the recovery curve. Last week the Commerce Department announced that seasonally adjusted retail sales rose 1% from May to June, something less than hoped for. Sales were actually down 1% from June of 1960, and durable goods were off a full 5% from the pace a year ago. Among the notable laggards are autos and appliances, hardware and furniture. Says Louis Paradiso, the Commerce Department's chief statistician: "This time there is more...
...been cut to $1 billion or even less. After a seven-month decline, manufacturers' inventories rose about $100 million in April-a sign that inventories now react more quickly than before to changes in the economic climate. In past recessions, an upturn in manufacturers' inventories has usually lagged five or more months (see chart) behind an upturn in industrial production; this time the lag was only a month...
...some economists, the shorter lag suggests that there have been basic changes in the inventory policy of U.S. business-that with the aid of computers and other new control techniques, businessmen are gearing inventory changes more closely to sales shifts and seeking to avoid the costs of high inventories. Says Louis Paradise, chief statistician for the Commerce Department: "Evidence is widespread that caution is now being used in inventory accumulation...