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...earnings reports but economic reports on inflation, labor and the GDP all await investors. The coast is not clear; the path is not known. With investors looking into a cloudy 2001 crystal ball, they're itchy and impressionable. Some days that means heart-stopping volatility; on Friday, volume remained robust and the buying was steady, pushing the NASDAQ up 64 and the Dow up 83 by closing time. But after this week, a lot of investors would still rather breathe into a paper bag than place any big bets on the direction of tech...
...Engineer," both for his entrepreneurial successes in the extraction business and his progressive commitment to "social engineering." He assumed the presidency at a time when economists spoke of a "new era" from which recessions had been banished. The federal reserve was held in high esteem. The stock market was robust. Unfortunately, his extra-presidential talents notwithstanding, Hoover's one term administration proved astoundingly incompetent. Ever the tinkerer, when the Crash of '29 struck, he strove to intervene, mounting what "progressive" economists dubbed "a new attack on poverty." Big businesses were prodded to keep wages high, resulting in massive, intractable unemployment...
...eligibility age for future retirees in order to stave off the eventual bankruptcy of Medicare and Social Security. He simply maintains that none of it will be necessary, as if wishing makes it so. "The campaign mechanics, with their poll tests and dial meters, don't encourage a robust, full-flowering debate on entitlement reform," says a Gore adviser who is frustrated with the candidate's lack of honesty on the issue. Gore the candidate is trying to get elected; Gore the public official knows the day of reckoning will come. And if it comes sooner than expected...
...learn about abstinence and to consider marriage necessary for sexual intercourse, but they also want their children to know much more about the issues revolving around sex. The recent findings show that they also feel that proper use of condoms, birth control and AIDS belong in a more robust sexual education class...
...eligibility age for future retirees in order to stave off the eventual bankruptcy of Medicare and Social Security. He simply maintains that none of it will be necessary, as if wishing made it so. "The campaign mechanics, with their poll tests and dial meters, don't encourage a robust, full-flowering debate on entitlement reform," says a Gore adviser who is frustrated with the candidate's lack of honesty on the issue. Gore the candidate is trying to get elected; Gore the public official knows the day of reckoning will come. And if it comes sooner than expected...