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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Interest rates are on the rise, and if you are holding a variable-rate loan or need to borrow now, you may well ask why. You will not be happy with the answer. Wall Street, of course, is ground zero, but don't go looking for logic there. All you'll find is a bunch of paranoid bond traders with more worries than a Woody Allen character. It is these traders who have decided that the prices you pay for gas, Wheaties and SUVs are about to start shooting higher, and so they are selling bonds--driving up bond yields...
Well, Fed chief Alan Greenspan, who had been leaning toward an interest-rate cut, now says he's no longer leaning. His next move could be up, could be down. That probably means no move is forthcoming--hardly a reason to panic...
What are the medical benefits? According to the pediatricians' review, boys who are not circumcised are at least four times as likely to develop urinary-tract infections in their first year of life. These infections occasionally lead to kidney problems. But the rate of urinary-tract infections among uncircumcised infants in the U.S. is still no more than 1%. Intriguingly, uncircumcised boys who are breast-fed suffer fewer such problems than uncircumcised boys who are bottle...
...late, the Crimson has made marked improvement with its power play. Harvard notched a 45 percent success rate on the power play last weekend, which is not reflected in its 16.9 percent season average, only eighth in the ECAC...
...Cynar, the Ivy League's top goalie last season with a save rate of 60 percent and 9.08 GAA, recorded 26 saves in the flurry...