Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard officials opened dorms early, cut short some Freshman Outdoor Program trips and rescheduled opening exercises to accomodate students observing the holidays, but Hillel leaders said the confluence still made for a stressful weekend...
...bill's backers say cities pass zoning laws that keep churches out. They say children cannot wear the Star of David to school because of regulations meant to ban gang symbols. They say coroners perform autopsies on those whose faith holds that the corpse is sacred. In short, without the Religious Liberty Protection Act, says Marc Stern of the American Jewish Congress, "you send a message to the state [authorities] that they have carte blanche to interfere with religious practices...
...when he was 27, he had drastic brain surgery to cure severe epilepsy. The operation cured his epilepsy, but removing parts of his brain's temporal lobes, including a structure called the hippocampus, destroyed his ability to form new memories. H.M., who is still alive, has a reasonably good short-term memory. Once introduced to a visitor, he will remember the person's name and other information while a conversation lasts. But if the visitor leaves and returns, H.M. has no memory whatsoever of having met the person. In fact, H.M. has no permanent memory of anything that happened after...
...Despite interest rates that are markedly higher today than a year ago, it's not at all clear that rates will keep climbing. In fact, long-term interest rates--set by bond traders, not the Fed--have tumbled in recent weeks on faith that this summer's boosts in short-term rates are enough to stop inflation cold. If that's the case, the logic of the previous two paragraphs applies--in reverse. No one said this is easy. You'd want to avoid T bills and cyclicals and own bonds and growth stocks, including techs and bank stocks...
...temps work on one assignment for more than two years, a situation that has not changed much in the past 15 years. That said, temps who work on long-term assignments tend to appreciate the flexibility their jobs offer and to be more satisfied than those in short-term positions; and 64% of temps with more than two years' tenure get health-care insurance from their employers, about the same percentage as those with permanent jobs...