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Since Mayer's last outing, a robust greenback has grown anemic, the U.S. has become the world's largest debtor, and the stock market dropped more than 500 points in one day, symbolically if not literally ending the avaricious '80s. Mayer patiently brings the reader up to speed on the intricacies of trading stocks, bonds, commodities and imaginative financial instruments with names like STRIPS, zero-coupon bonds and "Heaven & Hell" warrants...
...consumer goods, the assignment was like returning to the clean, gentle, well-ordered world that every kid wants to believe in. Correspondent Elaine Dutka, who spent several weeks at Disney headquarters in Burbank, Calif., found that the grownups who run the realm want to believe too. On a Sunday outing that she and Koepp took to Disneyland with Michael Eisner, the company's chief executive, Eisner detected a minute flaw in the facade of It's a Small World, checked out a new menu item (Handwiches, cone-shaped rolls with a choice of fillings) at one of the cafes...
Ubert left the game after pitching five innings, allowing two earned runs on five hits. The righty chalked up four strikeouts, catching all his victims looking. Except for a shakey third inning in which he surrendered three runs, Ubert was solid. It was his first outing since his impressive one-hit, complete-game victory against Northeastern last week...
...youngsters, children of Jewish settlers on the occupied West Bank, were on a Passover outing and had stopped for a picnic lunch when the trouble began with stone-throwing. Members of the group said Arabs offering to help then led them to Beita...
...probably Lee's strongest outing of her year and a half here," Harvard Coach John Wentzell said. "She mixed her pitches well...