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...entering a period of sustained, moderate growth fueled by low interest rates," notes Laura D'Andrea Tyson, Clinton's chief economic adviser (and Wescott's new boss). "But we would still like to see higher employment, the creation of more permanent jobs and stronger American exports." Tyson is forecasting modest 3% growth in the inflation-adjusted gross domestic product for the remainder of this year and into next. The question is whether even that pace can be maintained...
...while modest Harvard students would not confess to looking too closely, many noted black and orange "P"'s painted on the men's bodies...
...modest start and we need more," said Michael B. McElroy, Rotch professor of atmospheric science...
...audience. Thirty years after her death on Oct. 10, 1963, at the age of 47, France has revived the romance. Record companies have rereleased her hits, and six of her nine films are on videotape. Observing the flood of visitors who have made the pilgrimage this year to Paris' modest Edith Piaf Museum, curator Bernard Marchois says that "it is as if she never went away." And in one sense, she has never left...
...Foss's childhood recollection of a German fairy tale about a little devil who comes to earth to find love and happiness, has been repeatedly composed, decomposed and recomposed over the past 63 years (the composer, 71, wrote a first version when he was eight). It is a modest children's opera whose chief characteristic is its inoffensive, generic amiability...