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...outright global recession, economists concede, is still a real possibility. "The risks of a deeper, wider, more prolonged downturn have escalated," the International Monetary Fund reported in its most recent global forecast; the Commerce Department said last month that in August the trade deficit ballooned $2.2 billion, to $16.8 billion. Warning signs abound that this involves more than just collapsing Asian and Latin American markets. After years of low unemployment, a number of major U.S. companies have responded to their earnings troubles with year-end job cuts, among them Merrill Lynch (3,400), Raytheon (14,000), LSI Logic...
...account with Divx central--your machine calls a toll-free number, and you key in credit-card information. (The player automatically calls headquarters once or twice a month in the middle of the night, which I find creepy.) You see, rather than simply renting Divx disks, you buy them outright, for $4.50, and never return them to the store. You don't have to view them right away, but once you put one in your deck, you have 48 hours tops to watch it (as many times as you want). Then the movie locks. Want to see it later? That...
Dartmouth's aid increase--which averages out to $819 more per undergraduate, far below Harvard's $1,350--concentrates primarily on reducing self-help requirements--student loans and work-study--and replacing those requirements with outright grants...
...bigots do not object to liberal women speaking at Commencement. We object to a constant parade of liberal women, selected at the expense of the truly exceptional. We do not object to ethnic literature. We object to the outright politicization of a required instructional program, and the elevation of good writing to great writing simply because it is penned by minority authors...
Others questioned the council's legitimacy outright...