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...Ronald Reagan will be riding into November. The board's verdict: if the financial markets can calm down, the immediate outlook is good. The economy, which grew at a surprising 8.8% annual rate in the first quarter, is sure to slow down, but it is not likely to stall. Said Board Member Walter Heller, who served as President Kennedy's chief economic adviser: "There is plenty of steam left in the boiler...
...what is that baby zebra doing inside my stall...
...Kentucky, the sight of a horse giving birth is nearly as common as bluegrass. But last week when a 26-year-old mare named Kelly rolled over to foal on the clean straw of her specially lit, rubber-padded stall at a farm outside Louisville, the two attending veterinarians monitored the birth with more than customary anticipation. Reason: the newborn animal that later staggered uncertainly to its feet was a zebra...
Three years ago, there was some grafitti in a stall on the third level of Pusey Library that said "They won't find this grafitti." A few months after I saw it, some ambitious B&G worker had whitewashed those words and the wall of comments that had surrounded them. And someone wrote "They won't find it again...
...compelling reason for revamping the tax system is the need to raise substantial new revenues to help close a federal budget deficit that threatens to top $200 billion. The budget gap may stall the economic recovery by pushing up interest rates. Last week banks raised the prime rate that they charge corporate customers from 11.5% to 12%, the second rise in three weeks. The Federal Reserve Board reinforced the trend by raising the discount rate it charges on loans to banks from...