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...mark. Predictions this spring were that the current bull market, at the time more than 5 1/2 years old, was due for a fall. Those fears seemed close to realization by July 16, when the Dow had tumbled as low as 5,182.31, off 10 percent from its May peak. But the Federal Reserve's decision to hold the line on interest rates reassured investors in September, bringing the current rise toward 6,000. Meanwhile, investment fever continues to rise as fast as the market. According to the Federal Reserve, last year for the first time in decades the value...
This high demand on the system, especially at certain "peak" hours of the day, was what Steen said system officials originally considered the most likely cause for the system's slow speed...
Although Werbach said environmental activism has reached a "new peak" and Harvard students are "active, intelligent, plugged-in and critical," the co-chairs of the Environmental Action Committee and the Direct Action Subcommittee said environmental activism here still has a long...
...already a war zone, and it is hard to dispute the data that show parochial schools to be the best hope in a bad neighborhood. In the U.S. the Roman Catholic Church operates 8,293 elementary and secondary schools with 2.6 million students, about half the number of their peak years in the mid-to-late 1960s. Due in part to a simultaneous decline in Catholic religious vocations, priests and nuns are largely gone from the classroom, replaced by lay professionals who now make up more than 85% of parochial-school personnel...
...like a biochemical marker for aging. People churn out copious quantities until the age of 30, when the levels in the blood start to decline. By the time they are 80, men and women have less than 5% of the DHEA they had at their physical and sexual peak...