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...consumers to start. Wednesday morning came with more numbers - the index of leading economic indicators slid again, more steeply in March than in February, and the trade deficit was suddenly lower than it's been since the end of '99, thanks to record monthly decline in imports. Consumers were starting to retrench, no more pretending they weren't, and if they stayed away the economy had nowhere to go but down...
...before the invasion at Hickory Hill, Bobby Kennedy's Virginia estate. "Do you have any correspondents in Havana?" he asked me before leading me to a quiet part of his living room. I assured him that we did. He was wedged into the corner, and as he talked he slid down to escape the party's babble until we were both seated on the floor. "There is going to be a big story there tomorrow," he said. "It is going to be dangerous. I can't tell you any more. Just be ready." With that he was off among...
Francisco took the puck at center ice and flew down the left side with senior winger Kiirsten Suurkask on an odd-man rush. Drawing Barrie towards her, Francisco then slid the puck across the crease to Suurkask, who shot it over the sliding Barrie's right pad to increase the lead...
...lend a shred of credibility to an unpopular administration when YOSHIRO MORI came to power last April. So Miyazawa's unusually frank remarks last week about Japan's economy carried a particularly powerful punch. The country's finances, he said, "are near a state of collapse." The yen quickly slid to 20-month lows. Within days, Mori revealed to government insiders that he intends to step down...
...economy is beginning to sputter," George W. Bush said Wednesday after the Dow slid its way back below 10,000 and had brokers all over Wall Street checking to see if their windows opened. "I'm sorry people are losing value in their portfolios. That worries me." And then the sale: "But with the right policies, I'm confident our economy will recover.... And that means giving people money back, in plain language...