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...look it up. What I found is that a recession is most commonly defined as two consecutive quarters of decline in gross domestic product (or GDP). In researching this column, I was surprised to discover that consumer spending represents over 70% of gross domestic product. This struck me as ironic because, according to Hitwise search data, consumers searching for "recession" are not even clear on what the term means: they're searching for the definition of "recession," just like...
...surprisingly, Allam has won the admiration of some of Europe's prominent conservatives and critics of Muslim immigration. He has been compared to Hirsan Ali, herself an avowed atheist who long ago renounced her faith, and now divides her time between Europe and the United States. Allam also struck up a friendship with Oriana Fallaci, the late Italian journalist and writer, who in recent years wrote anti-Muslim screeds and warned against Europe becoming "Eurabia." Fallaci, a Catholic by birth, was a non-believer through her adult life, though reportedly was exploring questions of faith as she battled terminal cancer...
...that part of what Reagan said was correct: "True, the Soviet Union did strengthen its defense capability. Faced with feverish U.S. efforts to establish military bases near Soviet territory, to develop ever new types of nuclear and other weapons, the U.S.S.R. was compelled to do so." But then he struck back, saying of his American counterpart: "He tells a deliberate lie asserting that the Soviet Union does not observe its own moratorium on the deployment of medium-range missiles [in Europe]." When he addressed Reagan's idea of space-age defensive ABMs, Andropov became heated...
...Harvard skaters were] playing for their lives at that point,” Johnson said. “They came at us hard and Jesse came up with some really nice saves there.”After Wisconsin successfully killed the Crimson power play, Zaugg struck again to essentially put the game out of Harvard’s reach.Sprinting alongside Badgers forward Meghan Duggan on a 2-on-1 break, Zaugg received a perfect pass from Duggan and slipped the puck past Kessler 3:15 into the third for her second goal of the game and 24th on the season...
...buried Wednesday in New York, new details emerged about the accident that took his life on Monday. According to Cambridge Police Department spokesman Frank T. Pasquarello, Meyers was crossing the street at the corner of Mass. Ave. and River Street at around 6:45 a.m. when he was struck by the rear tire of a Shaw’s tractor trailer, which dragged him 160 feet. Pasquarello said the driver of the truck was “very distraught” after the incident. As of Tuesday, no charges had been pressed against Shaw’s. The grocery store...