Word: synchs
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Blame this predicament on Wall Street's bond traders, a hopelessly sullen bunch bent on blocking a recovery. They are the ones keeping long-term rates high. The traders, not Greenspan, set rates by bidding bond prices up and down on the open market, moving yields in synch with their world view. That view for much of this year has been that things aren't getting any worse. See what I mean by hopeless? Last week, outplacement firm Challenger Gray & Christmas reported that layoffs announced in July hit an eight-year high. Retail sales are falling off a cliff...
...upper torso centered over the feet. Lovejoy, who studies the anatomy and biomechanics of locomotion, thinks the changes may have improved coordination as well. "To walk upright in a habitual way, you have to do so in synchrony," he says. "If the ligaments and muscles are out of synch, that leads to injuries. And then you'd be cheetah meat...
...posts overseeing public lands have made the pendulum swing back to the other extreme, toward one of concern about how far the development push will go. "They just don't get it," says Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club. "Their ideological base is so out of synch with ordinary people on this." Even Congress is uneasy about that momentum. With an eye to the polls and the 2002 elections, some Republicans joined Democrats in late June to vote down any new oil or gas drilling in national monuments, and the Senate has signaled it would not support drilling...
RUMBLE SEAT If you think digital surround sound is for sissies and you've got a spare $16,000, the Odyssee Motion Simulator may be right up your alley. Four hydraulic "actuators" rattle and shake your La-Z-Boy like an amusement-park ride in perfect synch with such action-adventure movies as Twister and Jurassic Park. The device moves your seat only five-eighths of an inch, but that's enough to convince your body that a certain T. rex is getting closer every second...
...Everyone was playing well," Christino said. "Everyone was in synch...