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Though the "baby boom echo" is crowding school systems across the country, Cambridge's public schools aren't feeling the pinch...
With the stock market still booming, University officials are reluctant to slow the pace of their fundraising, fearing an eventual economic downturn that will put a pinch on Harvard's finances and fund drives...
...Mint and the Federal Reserve made the penny pinch official a few weeks ago, saying retailers in pockets around the nation were unable to make change even though the mint bumped up penny production 33% this year...
...After its passage this week, the bill should land on President Clinton?s desk sometime in September, at which point either it?s going to get a lot smaller ? Clinton?s stated upper limit is $300 billion, but he?ll go higher in a pinch -- or it?s going to disappear completely. And by way of pre-negotiation negotiation, both sides will be insisting all month that that?s OK with them. "Sometimes inaction is better than wrong action," said Trent Lott on Tuesday, sounding just like White House wonk Gene Sperling did on Sunday. If no deal gets done...
...college, think again. Several new studies, noting that an increasing number of adults are caring for their aging parents, project that by 2005, fully 37% of U.S. workers will be more occupied with elder care than with child rearing. And it's not just families who are feeling the pinch. Estimates say employees who miss work in order to care for parents are already costing U.S. business as much as $29 billion a year in lost productivity...