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...economic risks may be the greatest in recent years. If the U.S. is unlucky, rising inflation, higher interest rates and slower spending could whip up what economist David Wyss calls "a perfect storm" that could turn the soft landing the Federal Reserve is trying to engineer into an outright recession sometime next year. Wyss, chief economist for Standard & Poor's, still expects a gentle slowdown that would lower growth from nearly 5% at present to a more sustainable 3.5% in 2001. But he also sees a 1 in 4 chance of a slump. "Bad things," he warns, "can happen...
...unclear whether they're outright denying [King's alleged words]" in their public statements, he said...
...University to spend more money on undergraduates. Although the next president should be fiscally prudent enough to ensure the University's financial security for the new millenium, there must be room in the budget to increase the amount spent on a per-student basis. Despite the University's outright lead in the amount of the endowment, Harvard trails several other schools in the amount spent per student. This increased spending could be accomplished in real terms, without actually increasing the percentage of the interest from the endowment spent on students, but we would encourage the next president to increase...
...feel sympathy with the neighbors. There's hostility there," Galluccio said, explaining why he decided not to vote against the moratorium outright...
...with Milosevic's 38%, the Serb autocrat still looked strong, albeit shaken. He set about rectifying the decision in his usual way, urging the cronies who packed the Federal Election Commission to rig the count. But the tally was so lopsided that even he could not plausibly claim victory outright. He had to concede he had come in second, but he settled for a second round of voting to buy time to cook better results for the runoff...