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...strange. Someone on the spur of the moment decided to borrow it," Montville said. "My initial reaction was disbelief that anyone would want to steal a van with something as conspicuous as 'Harvard Dining Services' written across its side...
...that will lead to productive investment rather than a self-feeding economic contraction and recession? Actually, there isn't much dispute about this one. If the deficit were to come down, the Fed would gladly accommodate this "tight" fiscal policy with a "loose" monetary policy. Low interest rates would spur private investment to take up the slack in demand, and everyone would live happily ever after...
...Feelies leave the heavy messages at home. "We are not political," says Mercer. "If anything, we are spiritual." It must be a restless spirit just now, and a little bit anxious as well. Percussionist Dave Weckerman, 38, also free-lances in a Feelies spur group called Yung Wu and holds down a part-time job as a shipping clerk. Million, the only married band member, has a seven- year-old son and works behind the register at northern New Jersey's only rent- a-laser-disk store. Drummer Stan Demeski, 28, moved out of his mother's home only this...
...mania." Not surprisingly, he said, "we received numerous complaints. People did not recognize their motherland on maps." For years, space photography has enabled the U.S. to make highly reliable maps of the Soviet Union. But, Yashchenko said, it has taken Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of glasnost to spur his agency into releasing accurate maps...
...Japan, handling 4.8 million individual and 200,000 corporate accounts. In addition, the company has a 2,600-strong force of part-time saleswomen, mostly middle-aged, who troop from door to door, hawking stocks and bonds. This corps was established 30 years ago, when the company sought to spur personal investment by distributing savings chests to Japanese households. The local saleswoman held the keys to savers' chests. Each month she came by to empty the chest and place the money in the customer's Nomura account. The company gave out more than 1 million chests before the gimmick...