Word: lows
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Greater Seattle may be best known around the world for Microsoft, Starbucks and rock bands like Nirvana, but residents know it for something less flashy: its rich stock of wild salmon. Last week the Federal Government, noting that that stock is running dangerously low, placed seven types of salmon and two types of trout on its list of threatened or endangered species. Never before has the regulatory machinery of the Endangered Species Act been turned on so large or heavily populated an area. Saving the fish from extinction will require sacrifices from Seattle, Portland, Ore., and the surrounding counties...
...attention to direct tonal painting, almost the opposite of color-based Impressionism. "Velazquez, Velazquez, Velazquez," he intoned, "ceaselessly study Velazquez." And from that study, Sargent got three of the major traits of his style. The first was a consummate skill in rendering objects and people bathed in space and low light. The second was its apparent straightforwardness--its ability to make a gesture count, to "knock in" the folds of a black dress or the petals of a white rose with the utmost economy. And the third was a sense of pictorial decorum, the artist's refusal to parade...
...market soared? Low inflation, cost-conscious management and endless global opportunities for U.S. companies have played a huge role. Those things will persist. But our limitless affection for technology, blind faith in index funds and grossly underappreciated sense of stock-market risk are part of the equation too. And those things will pass. It was only 10 years ago that we stretched reason to justify Japanese stocks' trading at 70 or 100 times earnings--just ahead of that country's enduring recession. Today's most popular stocks trade in that range, and tortured explanations again pass for wisdom...
DIED. ERNEST GOLD, 77, Vienna-born Oscar-winning composer who wrote scores for It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and Exodus, among other films; of a stroke; in Santa Monica, Calif. Gold broke into Hollywood in the mid-1940s, writing music for low-budget movies for Columbia Pictures...
...March 23 Op-Ed to be truthful and courageous. Raises are not enough to cover the cost of living expenses that keep on going up. Employees need more protection from the inflationary costs of living in this area. It's shameful to pay someone like Mr. Sullivan that low a wage! Harvard needs to listen more closely to those who serve them...