Word: sentimentals
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...release further installments of its aid package shortly before Clinton leaves office, for which the President will probably once again waive the usual requirement that Colombia show progress on human rights issues. Negotiations between the government and the rebels are going nowhere, and there's a growing sentiment in Colombian politics to stop negotiations and seek a return of the one-third of the country they've handed over to the guerillas in earlier deals. That would probably mean a bloody fight to the finish. Demands for aid to Colombia (and even its neighbors) are only likely to increase...
...Retail sales fell 0.4% in November, led by the biggest drop in car sales in more than two years. Both UPS and FedEx reported that holiday shipments are slackening, while Microsoft and Compaq became the latest tech titans to blame poor earnings on a slowing home-PC market. Consumer sentiment about the economy, as measured by the University of Michigan, is at a three-year low. Given the drubbing on Wall Street this year, that's not surprising. As the NASDAQ soared in the past few years, the market created a so-called wealth effect, emboldening people to throw money...
...council grants over $80,000 a year to student groups. They run the annual Springfest, the First-Year Formal, shuttles to Yale for The Game and to the airport for break. But, pick up any copy of The Crimson and you are likely to find a general anti-council sentiment on campus, sometimes to an extreme degree...
Many--but not all--House librarians agree that students should be able to use the books they manage for us. "It would be good for people to have a better sense of what is there," said Shannon O'Neil Trowbridge, Winthrop House librarian, echoing a common sentiment. When I have brought the issue up with students, there seems almost universal appeal-who wouldn't want a better sense of the books in the House library next door, if it could save a trip from Mather to Tozzer, Andover or Hilles...
Darling said that he thought the less-than-packed turnout contributed to a better discussion. Driskell echoed that sentiment...