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...Other peak performances solidified Harvard’s strengths all season long, which included junior Eleanor Thompson in the 400-meter hurdles and senior Jennifer Lee in the 800 meters...
...cost taxpayers €15 billion in subsidies. The findings were widely seen as politically partisan. Still bruised from the polls, Raffarin swiftly reassured the public that no 35-hour reform was imminent. That doesn't surprise many French business owners. "The ability to adapt [the] workforce to peak and slack periods was good, but I knew when I applied the 35-hour week that I wouldn't make new hires," says Patrick Roos, who employs 38 at his custom-made shutter company in Burgundy. Though he says he'd love to see more flexible rules, Roos predicts that reform...
Tight budgets have led to some strange choices in the past. Artists who have performed at Springfest range from bands well past their peak, like the Violent Femmes in 1999, to novelty acts, like Big Bad Voodoo Daddy in 2000, to downright bewildering choices, like God Street Wine...
...microchips are any indicator, the global economy continues to gain momentum. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index, which perked up last month after yet another research group forecast a recovery in 2004, is up 70% from a year ago (though still below its 52-week peak in January). On the heels of upward predictions by IDC and IC Insights, Gartner revised its estimates of global chip sales to call for a 23%-to-32% surge this year, but the boom probably won't last long. Gartner's latest report also lowered its 18% growth forecast...
...taxpayer in the 28% bracket, compared with the taxable Tnote's 4.20%. And that's before taking into account any exemption from state and local tax. "Yields are still cheap compared to Treasuries'," says Zane Brown, director of fixed-income investments at Lord Abbett. Baby boomers in peak earning years are especially well positioned to reap the tax benefits of munis, says Brown, who recommends high-quality bonds, rated...