Word: strong
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...boasted strong performances throughout the line-up at both singles and doubles...
...another victim of dot-com mania: wanna-be doctors. For the second straight year, applications to U.S. medical schools are down, a 4.7 percent drop from 1997 to 1998. That makes a 12 percent decline in since 1996, when applications were at an all-time high. The diagnosis? A strong economy gives bright students a wider range of options and less of a perceived need to seek out a "safe" profession (medical schools experienced similar fluctuations in the late '70s and early '80s during flush economic periods). Add to that the fact that some doctors report less-than-perfect...
...estimated 35,000 people who may remain locked in the wreckage of Turkey's punishing earthquake. After the first three days, successful rescues grew more and more sporadic. Without water, in the cruel heat, few of the trapped can survive more than 72 hrs., no matter how strong the will to live. There might still be a miracle or two. But the hopelessness for the rest reverberated in the trembling voice of Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit as he acknowledged, "It is not possible to reach them...
...addition to listening, commiserating and strategizing, parents need to do something very old-fashioned with our kids: we need to teach them to be strong. Encourage them to be proud and to stand tall, even if they're the shrimpiest kid in school. Tell them not to cry, not to cave, not to show their weakness. A kid who is proud of herself does not present a very tempting target to a bully. Your kid might not be lucky enough to have a phalanx of older sisters protecting her in the hallway, as I did, but she should always...
...already slowing down. The Commerce Department reported Thursday that GDP growth from the April-to-June quarter was actually 1.8 percent, instead of the 2.3 percent the government had estimated a month ago. In reality, of course, that has nothing to do with Tuesday?s action ?- even with a strong market reaction, an interest rate hike takes at least six months to reverberate through the economy ?- but it?s sure got plenty to do with how the Fed spends its fall...