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...During rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, the part of the sleep cycle most closely associated with dreaming, Stickgold says "there is a lot of communication between the neocortex and the hippocampus...
...with six weeks before the next Fed meeting, there may be more to come. Because every move comes with words, and listen to these: "Business and consumer confidence are eroding further... requires a rapid and forceful response... inflation contained." Translation: There's a good chance of another between-the-meetings rate cut sometime before March, but until then Greenspan and the boys would like to read a few more tea leaves - and not risk sending the 75-basis-point message that the end of the world is nigh...
...with the Texas Rangers baseball team then, and we met in his office in Dallas. It was filled, as his governor's office would be, with baseball memorabilia. After we had introduced ourselves I asked a question and then said hardly another word for 90 minutes as Bush talked rapid-fire about whatever seemed to pop into his head. I don't remember a thing he said. In fact I didn't remember anything even as I left his office. I do remember asking myself, "What was that all about...
...that a shrinking federal debt doesn't remain a good thing. "The rapid capital deepening that has occurred in the U.S. economy in recent years is a testament to those benefits." (That's Greenspan for "I told you so" after corralling Clinton into that 1993 deficit reduction plan.) But, the Fed head said, "the most recent projections, granted their tentativeness, nonetheless make clear that the highly desirable goal of paying off the federal debt is in reach before the end of the decade...
...Ritchie had filmed his own wedding, it might have looked like this: rapid cuts of swank guests and strewn rose petals, 360[degrees] swirls as the bride descends the staircase, a low-angle shot of the groom in his kilt, a killer closeup of Sting's molars as he sings Ave Maria and--big finish--a plateful of haggis thrown at the camera. The whole film would be very loud and would last about six seconds...