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...want to win all of our dual meets," Haggerty said. "The first couple of weeks will give us a base for moving on. Track is a sport where by nature you're trying to peak at the right time, since your championship is decided by one meet...
Though avid fans with cash to spare will want to spring for the full set, others interested in hearing a major artist at the peak of his powers should stand by for the release of individual volumes, starting next year. The bulk of The Rubinstein Collection is given over to later performances that too often are cautious, occasionally even bland. But the first 11 discs, recorded in the '20s and '30s and exquisitely remastered by Ward Marston, sizzle with the devil-may-care brio that made Rubinstein the best-loved pianist of his generation...
HAPPY MUNI YEAR Low inflation and high yields are making municipal bonds an attractive buy. The yield on benchmark munis reached 5.99% a few weeks ago, a peak for the year. Those returns have slipped a bit since, but munis still offer relatively high rates. They are yielding more than 90% of a comparable Treasury bond, the result in part of an abundant supply. "Historically, muni yields are not this close to Treasury yields with the same maturity," says Mark Tenenhaus, director of municipal research for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. The kicker is that the muni bonds are tax free...
WARM UP Expect your new speakers to take 12 hr. to 50 hr. to "burn in," or reach peak performance...
Actually, Pentagon spending on readiness, per soldier, is near an all-time high, eclipsing even 1991's tally, which included the Persian Gulf War. And while the Army is not at the peak of readiness, the relevant question is not why not, but rather, why should it be? After all, the Soviet army, with its swarms of T72 tanks, is no longer poised at the German frontier's Fulda Gap, ready to pour into Western Europe in the next 30 minutes. Instead, today's U.S. military is deployed, in relatively small numbers, to regional hot spots that Washington wants...