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...Economics, long contended that rising productivity in the new economy enables the U.S. to enjoy noninflationary increases in production much greater than once imagined. He now concedes that this picture has been temporarily pushed aside. "For the first time in over a decade," he says, "a standard business-cycle pattern is moving front and center...
...pattern, if there is one, is elusive. For example, New York City's murder rate is up this year, just as it was last year. But the 1999 total of 671 murders pales in comparison with 1990, when the toll hit 2,245. What goes down so dramatically must come back up, experts say, even if only a little bit. "It's like going on a diet. You can lose most of the fat in the earliest stages; then it gets harder to lose more, or even retain the loss," says Eli Silverman, a criminal-justice professor at John...
...should feel concern if memory loss becomes a consistent pattern--forgetting what you've just said or done, repeatedly missing appointments, telling old jokes again and again or unwittingly making phone calls to the same people about the same subjects. Or if these flubs are followed by changes in behavior, such as irritability, depression or irrational suspicions (your house has been broken into, your spouse is cheating on you, people...
...pattern finally felled Harvard at Jordan Field on Oct. 16 against No. 13 Boston University. The Crimson, which had climbed to No. 20 in the rankings, had difficulty getting its shots on goal, sending a number of critical scoring opportunities wide in the game. The Terriers won, 2-0, the other Harvard loss by more than one goal...
...priding himself on the tomatoes bursting ripe in the vegetable garden, that Little Brother had just smacked his first stand-up double or that Sis had been accepted at the local university. The mundane details of life in the U.S.--the score of Friday night's football game, the pattern of a soft cotton dress bought special on Main Street--have always been the rare joy of American soldiers far from home. For every Dear John letter serving notice that a soldier had been dumped by his best girl, a thousand others served warm reminders of Mom's cooking...