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Manufacturing output and employment are being hurt by the rise in imports and drop in exports. But, Reaser points out, manufacturing "accounts for less than one-fifth of the total U.S. economy." Rising consumer spending has kept the other 80% growing, thanks in her opinion largely to the "wealth effect"--that is, the tendency of rising stock prices to make people feel richer and able to spend freely, even if many of their gains remain on paper. Reaser notes that retail sales rose strongly early in 1998 along with the booming market, faltered in late summer as stock prices dived...
...construction, as well as "a widening of the trade gap," but thinks they will be largely offset by further gains in consumer spending, business investment in information technology and "some increase in government spending." Profits of companies whose stocks are included in the Standard & Poor's 500 index will rise about 5%, she forecasts, vs. a flat performance this year but well below the double-digit gains of 1997 and earlier years. Inflation, Reaser thinks, is bottoming out this year, with the Consumer Price Index rising a trifling 1.5%. She expects about 2.4% in 1999--still no cause for deep...
...scientific community," says Washington correspondent Dick Thompson, "the debate is largely settled that the global warming trend is human-induced and the result of industrial emissions into the air." The real debate is not whether the trend will continue, but how abruptly the temperature will rise. "Scientists are not sure whether world temperatures will rise linearly, "says Thompson, "or whether there's a threshold beyond which temperatures will skyrocket." Such dramatic warming periods, over as little as a decade, have already occurred in the history of the Earth. And if one were to occur again now, the ecological and social...
Regardless of where Home might be in terms of authentic time zones, most visitors will perceive a distinct sense of jet lag upon arrival at Home. According to local custom, most natives of Home rise early in the morning-often to attend to native rituals and folkways such as "school" or "work"-and can often be spotted going to sleep at mid-night, or even earlier. Napping, while common in industrialized nations like our own native land, is considered primitive and uncultivated behavior. While the napping in reality viewed as a gross indulgence and will weaken their status among...
...demand is no the rise: this number is about 600 more than in the previous year, says Pamela Dunn, Manager of housing and leasing services for HPRE...