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Blessed with a clean slate, the Crimson can now forget its recent slump, which proved not to be as fatal as was originally thought...
While the losses will not reflect on Harvard, the mere fact that the Crimson has played so many tough teams will work to its advantage. And even in the midst of the team's current losing streak--its longest slump since 1989--the Crimson still has been playing well. Both of Harvard's league losses, as well as its losses to Penn State and Hartford, came on the road...
...what had become an unshakable pattern in this up-and-down season, Harvard again came out of its slump against Ivy League teams--in this case tough losses at Yale and Brown--by throttling a non-league opponent...
...trying to engineer into an outright recession sometime next year. Wyss, chief economist for Standard & Poor's, still expects a gentle slowdown that would lower growth from nearly 5% at present to a more sustainable 3.5% in 2001. But he also sees a 1 in 4 chance of a slump. "Bad things," he warns, "can happen to new economies...
...utilities, oil and some financial and left-for-dead health-care stocks have done well. But that's not where the money was. Popular techland has been a disaster. Last week the NASDAQ yo-yo busted its string and fell to a new low for the year, extending a slump in the most speculative stocks and grounding the likes of Intel, Dell, Cisco and Lucent...