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Most of the commuters exiting the 34th Street subway stop last Monday morning treated Democrat Ruth Messinger with resolute indifference. But they weren't the demoralizing ones. They were those who felt bad for her, like George, a 33-year-old accountant. After pronouncing that incumbent Rudy Giuliani is rash and a bad listener, he strode over to Messinger and clasped her hand. "Not this time," he consoled, as the smile vanished from the candidate's face...
...along under the fuzzy notion that the '90s are different, that an economy with seemingly rock-solid fundamentals could withstand the buffeting of currency crises in countries half a world away. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who likes this kind of excitement about as much as he does a rash, carefully reinforced his long-held belief that the Nirvana-like state of low unemployment and steady growth that correlates with his tenure can be sustained by riding herd on inflation. Said he: "Our economy has enjoyed a lengthy period of good economic growth, linked, not coincidentally, to damped inflation...
...stalwart individual investor. It was the institutions that sold Monday. Individuals simply never got the chance. Tuesday, the overwhelming response of the little guy was to either do nothing or buy more stock. As mutual-fund managers took note, they realized two things: they would not see a rash of redemptions that day, and thus did not have to worry about keeping a lot of cash on hand; and many stocks were quite a bit cheaper than they had been a day earlier, so maybe they ought to buy. Something bordering on a buying panic ensued...
Harvard Dining Services (HDS) officially prohibits all undergraduates from taking food out of the dining halls, but a rash of food-napping since the beginning of the semester has led the Annenberg staff to implement strict compliance with the no take-out policy...
...that have spawned a new youth subculture. Anti-drug czar Barry McCaffrey's office added K to its list of "emerging drugs" in 1995; the office's latest "pulse check" of the nation found K "all over." St. Louis, Mo., Tampa, Fla., and suburban New Jersey have seen a rash of animal-hospital break-ins by thieves hunting for ketamine...