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...sometimes jaundiced eye of Bacharach's best partner, lyricist Hal David. Two years ago, Costello and Bacharach co-wrote the song God Give Me Strength, included here, for the film Grace of My Heart. If only the rest of this album were up to that stunningly well-crafted peak. Bacharach brings out a new directness in Costello's singing and verse, but the millstone is cloying production. These engagingly sinuous tunes deserve better than cheesy keyboards and smooth-jazz guitar licks more suited to a Lionel Richie album...
...next year--after Tutu, a 1978 honorary degree recipient, spoke at the IOP--the divestment movement reached its peak...
Look at Harnischfeger, and you can see the origins of the stock market's grinding 1,698-point decline, a loss of 8% from the July 17 peak of the Dow Jones industrial average at 9337.97. The company also offers a glimpse of what might come next, as American workers and investors like Dave Trench wonder whether the long boom is over. Should they pull their money out of stocks? Does the market slide foretell a recession? How is any of this bad news possible when the U.S. economy seems so strong, with the lowest unemployment, inflation and interest rates...
...ended its week at 7640.25, it was approaching one of the standard benchmarks for a bear market: a 20% drop from a previous peak. Many investors, though, have been in a quiet bear market for several months; that's because, during the last stages of the run-up in the Dow and the S&P 500, most of the increase was accounted for by such large companies as Coca-Cola and Microsoft; many smaller stocks were left behind. In the S&P 500, virtually all the gains in share prices in recent months were made by the 50 largest...
...sponsors of SOHO) have located the wayward spacecraft and started nursing it back to health; they hope to regain control of it this week. If all goes well, SOHO could be fully back in business this fall in plenty of time to monitor the sun as it approaches the peak of its 11-year cycle of activity, around...