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...thing, more Europeans are getting to work. Whereas jobs in the U.S. are beginning to grow scarcer, Europe, long plagued by chronic unemployment, is still adding to its employment rolls. This should boost consumption, and what's more, Lipp argued, the effect will be relatively long-lasting. Said Lipp: "Once employment starts to pick up, it's not a cyclical phenomenon." Longer term, huge corporate and individual tax cuts in the works in Germany and France should also boost consumption...
...Navy ship in the Persian Gulf and Israel bombing Palestinian headquarters in retaliation for a Palestinian lynching of Israeli soldiers (and with Iraq threatening to suspend crude production in some wacky euro-support blackmail scheme and Venezuela mired in oil-labor troubles) there was only one commodity scarcer than confidence Thursday, and that was black gold...
Last year students voted in overwhelming numbers to downsize the council from 90 to 50 members. The rationale was that by making council seats scarcer, races would become more competitive, enhancing the council's overall legitimacy. The logic has proved somewhat correct: This year, all but two upperclass Houses are fielding three or more candidates. Some students have been forced to campaign heavily, many going door-to-door to meet potential constituents...
...There are a few people who feel lost when Radcliffe College is taken out of the name," she said. "But I think that those of us are looking at how we will survive in the future realize that graduates are becoming scarcer and scarcer...
...takeover comes at a crucial point for Harvard's undergraduate performance groups, as stage space is highly sought after and soon to grow scarcer...