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Chastened, I decided to cut out the lag time between interview and publication. I called Marty Zweig, another market star, who updates his tape- recorded advice daily. The Dow had just closed down 34 points the Friday before Memorial Day, and I wanted to know whether the bear was back. "The market does not go down prior to holidays all that often," Zweig's tape explained, "but when it does, the odds are about 7 out of 8 that the next day will be lower." It shot up 49 points...
...scientists assume that the uranium-thorium tests were right and the carbon 14 tests wrong? For one thing, the carbon datings pointed to the strange conclusion that ice ages, thought to be related to changes in the earth's orbit around the sun, have mysteriously lagged behind those changes by a few thousand years. But uranium-thorium dating shows no such lag. Moreover, carbon 14 levels in the air -- and thus the amount ingested by organisms -- are known to vary over time, and that can affect the results of carbon dating...
...grew up largely anesthetized in a country engaged in the "feel-good" dream inspired by that living Marlboro Man, Ronald Reagan. The irony, of course, is that none of the dilemmas that confront the U.S. today were unforeseeable a decade ago. The education crisis in the cities, the research lag of domestic industry in international competition, the savings and loans bankruptcies, Iran-Contra, even the public deficit, all stem from neglect...
...name, the library is a private institution and has just come through a $304 million fund drive in which Gregorian, philanthropist Brooke Astor and board chairman Andrew Heiskell shook every money tree in the city. Gregorian restored the splendid beaux arts edifice on 42nd Street, eliminated a years-long lag in cataloging and listed all publications after 1972 on a computer. Then he departed to be president of Brown University where, presumably, he will charm the birds out of the Rhode Island foliage...
This view ignores historical reality. With courageous political leadership, the armed services needn't lag behind the rest of society in acceptance of gays and lesbians. When it comes to carrying out social reforms, the military truly can be "a great place to start...