Word: march
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...heady experience. "I had been asked to read the manuscript and offer an opinion as to whether TIME ought to publish excerpts from it," recalls Seaman, who took the memoirs of the former White House chief of staff along on a vacation to the Bahamas last March. "Settling in for the flight to Nassau, I picked up the text. Not a minute later, almost involuntarily, I let forth a cry that caused several passengers to turn in their seats." By the time his plane had landed, Seaman knew that TIME and the book's publisher, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich...
When the Labor Department announced the U.S. unemployment figures for April, the news was so good it might be bad. The jobless rate fell to 5.4%, down from 5.6% in March, and the lowest level since June 1974. That was encouraging to those who found work, but the news raised fears of renewed inflation. Reason: pressure on the job market could lead to a widespread rise in wages that, in turn, could boost prices...
Restraining consumer prices, which rose at a 6.4% annual rate in March, will be no easy task for Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. To cool the economy, he may have to nudge interest rates upward. But doing so could drop a political bombshell on the presidential campaign of Vice President George Bush. For a loyal Republican like Greenspan, it is a dilemma with the sharpest of horns...
Harvard may have more heat problems, as tomorrow's game will be played on artificial turf. The Crimson is 1-2 on turf this season. Harvard defeated Penn in March but fell to both Temple and Loyola College over Spring Break...
Temple's lacrosse team would not be the first top-seeded Owl team to lose in an NCAA Tournament this season. Duke upset Temple and its star Mark Macon in the March NCAA Basketball Tournament in March with great defense from Blue Devil forward Billy King. Harvard will need such an effort from Dermody, Maggie Vaughan, Julia French, and the other defensive stalwarts...