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...steeply in the third quarter of the year. Then there is the so-called wealth effect. Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan warned of the dangers of removing more than $1.5 trillion in business and consumer wealth because of the market drop. Said the chairman: "We're bound to see a major impact in personal-consumption expenditures and housing...
...major worries of working parents is how best to take care of their kids. To meet that need, NationsBank of Charlotte, N.C., provides five different on-site or near-site child-care centers that are open to the children of its 100,000 employees. There is even a public school accommodating 150 students for grades K-3 that is just for children of NationsBank's employees in Jacksonville, Fla., says Nancy Poe, a vice president in the bank's personnel department. The school is a joint project of the company and the Duval County school system. "The school...
...Institute of Oriental Studies, and then, in 1985, of the country's premier think tank, the Institute for World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO). Primakov took over IMEMO at the beginning of the Gorbachev era and quickly became a key part of the Gorbachev team. He played a major role in creating the ideology of perestroika, in particular questioning the communist dogmas that had traditionally determined foreign relations. But his predilection for the shadows and his stiffness in public meant that he received less credit than Gorbachev's more charismatic aides...
...many accounts, kava is indeed better. Even critics admit that it has mild pharmacological properties and produces none of the side effects of Valium and other sedatives. "It's not a major difference, but I do feel a lot calmer," says Amie McGoon, 32, a California graduate student who began taking kava after antidepressants failed...
...disorder made its first major public appearance three years ago, when Princess Diana confessed that the strain of her marriage had caused her to throw herself down the staircase and cut herself with razors, pen knives and lemon slicers. "You have so much pain inside yourself," she said in an interview with the BBC, "you try and hurt yourself on the outside because you need help." Says Steven Levenkron, a pioneer in the study of anorexia and author of two books on self-injury: "It feels like an epidemic, but it's an epidemic of disclosure. And I credit Diana...