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...year Treasury bond, which is Wall Street's favorite gauge of long-term interest rates, hit 4.343% on Tuesday while the two-year Treasury bill, a benchmark for short rates, hit 4.347%. Put aside the fact that this inversion is minuscule, and had evaporated by mid-day Wednesday. Inversion is inversion, and this unwholesome circumstance has occurred before every recession in the last 40 years. The logic is simple. Bond traders push long-term yields unusually low when they feel that short-term rates are unusually high and will choke off business borrowing and crush the economy...
...mean the moving scenery: all video projections by designer William Dudley. In your theater seat, you are the eye of a whirling film camera that soars over the rugged or ravishing Cumberland countryside, that takes you into Limmeridge House and through all its haunted rooms, that mimics a dozen mid-19th century paintings while curling and circling in the glamorously kinetic style of film directors Max Ophuls and Miklos Jancso. Dudley worked similar magic on the London productions of The Coast of Utopia and Hitchcock Blonde, but never on so ambitious a scale or to such vertiginous effect. Gimmick...
...determinations made by the subcommittee regarding which groups will receive space in Hilles and which will remain in the Yard will be compiled in a report to be submitted to Gross for approval in early April. Final announcements will be made by mid-April...
...according to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), since only resurfaced in magazines such as Midwest Living. And this is all terribly recent when compared with ‘plow,’ which after 300 years in noun-land seems to have made the jump some time the mid 15th century.The interesting question to consider, and where the moral of this story lies (for anyone worth his salt at columning must always be working towards a moral) is why this is so. Why is it that so many of the verbs we use which come from nouns have...
...president’s chief of staff, on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice arising from the inquiry.Woodward gave a two-hour deposition to Fitzgerald under oath on Nov. 14, after failing to reveal for more than two years that he had been told in “mid-June 2003” by a current or former Bush administration official that Plame worked as an “analyst” at the CIA, according to a statement released by Woodward a day after he testified.The statement revealed scant details about his source, except to say that...