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Rudenstine also said it's unrealistic to expect rapid changes in the amount of benefits that workers receive...
...Greenspan already saved the world once in the fall of 1997, swooping in with rapid-fire cuts when the ruble imploded and Long Term Capital fell. He figured he was saving us again in 1999, this time from wage-induced inflation, with six rate hikes that ended with a half-point flourish in June 2000. And since he's been on a soft landing of his own, leaving rates alone while slowly climbing down from his inflation-watching perch...
After disrupting the ensuing inbounds pass, the Crimson bench and the Lavietes crowd erupted as the Harvard players danced in a huddle under the basket. The Dartmouth players and coaching staff rushed off the court without the customary handshakes, as everyone else was too startled by the rapid turn of events to take notice...
...Sodas still command the biggest share of sips in the U.S., but it's the entrepreneurial upstarts like SoBe, Nantucket Nectars, Fresh Samantha and Honest Tea that are making people thirsty. While the nonbubbly business is growing almost 10% a year--and bottled water is chugging along at a rapid, 30% clip--sodas have suddenly gone flat. Noncarbs, which generally command higher prices, now account for more than half of all industry growth, according to Sanford Bernstein & Co. No wonder, then, that every beverage maker is feverishly working to come up with cola alternatives that promise to be healthy...
...they're glimpsed vividly and briefly from a passing vehicle. And an essentially traditional modernist like Richard Diebenkorn, during the figurative-landscape phase of his work in the '50s and early '60s--represented here by a slashing landscape called Freeway and Aqueduct, 1957--gave those landscapes a sense of rapid movement in deep space, and an imagery of roadworks, water conduits and ramps that you can't dissociate from...