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...addition, instantaneous electronic trading, particularly on a global scale, could increase the volatility of markets in the same way that computer- generated program trading has done. Filtering trades through human hands and minds might be slightly sluggish and inefficient, but it can serve to add an element of stability (and occasionally even a moment of rationality) to a marketplace. Says Albert Sindlinger, who runs a Wallingford, Pa., investment- research firm bearing his name: "If the past is any indication of what computers will do to markets in the future, then we may all be in big trouble...
Knowles called the issue one of the "ticking clocks" he found when he was named dean. "Our institution had been a little bit sluggish, perhaps, in bringing technology into the classroom," Knowles said...
Although no students said yesterday that their periodicals are in danger of folding, many said their organizations have felt the bite of a sluggish economy. And even those groups that have been relatively unaffected admit that advertising revenues have not surged to new heights this year...
...lengthy U.S. recession gives way to a sluggish rebound, but it won't help Bush much in November unless it picks up steam...
Demand was highest in the West, where home sales soared 18%. Most of this action, though, is taking place outside California, whose economy has been battered by a retreating defense industry. In the Northeast, housing sales rose only 2%, a sluggish performance due partly to the fact that home prices are up 2% to $143,000, second only to those in California. Sales in the South increased 9%. In the Midwest housing sales also jumped 9%, and new home construction climbed 39%. But Chicago Realtor Dempsey Travis says a sustained recovery will need more than "one-shot remedies" like...