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...very, very pleased with the weekend," Harvard Coach John Dooley said. "Both of those teams were sky-high to face...
...French have long been celebrated for their enthusiastic worship of The Woman--the femina who is perfect, whose beauty and sex rating is sky-high. The petty irritation of what happens on their streets inevitably reflects that. But it also holds up a focusing lens to something we in this country are unable to perceive clearly from where we stand. We live with the same assumption, more wavery and ungraspable but just as deep-rooted, that separates women from people...
...reaction from Brooke or her indefatigable mother Teri escaped the headlines. Her decision that Princeton was the university probably boosted that select institution's popularity rating enough to counteract the loss of an entire academic major and long-standing image difficulties on campus housing policy, keeping the application numbers sky-high...
Wall Street's gloomiest forecasters argue that sky-high borrowing costs are literally ruining the business environment for American industry. Says Raymond Dalio of Bridgewater Associates, a Wilton, Conn., economic forecasting firm: "I think we'll see a repeat of the Crash of 1929. The only way we can avoid a further acceleration of failures is to get a substantial break in interest rates accompanied by a sharp increase in economic activity. That has not happened, and that is why I believe we are already in the early stages of a depression." Dalio expects the Dow to drop...
...Hollywood movies opening in 500 to 1,500 theaters," notes Industry Analyst Lee Beaupre, "their commercial fates are generally determined in the first week." Art Murphy, Variety's box-office expert, explains: "Because it costs so much to advertise in the newspapers and on television-and because of sky-high interest rates-an expensive picture has to strike big and fast. A movie in 1,500 theaters will make its money quickly and then drop off. Even a hit can use up its audience in 25 days. These movies are flashes, but they are megaflashes...