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...What's going on? "In March and April, interest rates were going up very gradually, and tech investors figured Greenspan would taper off, because this was an election year," says TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl. "Now, the inflation picture is getting worse, and Greenspan is getting serious. And they're feeling the effects of higher interest rates...
Barnes and Drake are two of the swimmers who will shave and taper this weekend to see if they can make for the Eastern Seaboard Intercollegiate League championship March 2-4, and possibly for the NCAA Tournament later in the month. Both tournaments have specific qualifying times, and Barnes hopes shaving will give him a chance to reach those times this weekend...
There is another sizable chunk of the holiday market still left to be served--the procrastinators. E-commerce traffic began to taper off in mid-December as shoppers worried that online deliveries wouldn't arrive on time. Who could blame them? Wal-Mart and others warned Web shoppers as early as Dec. 12 that they couldn't guarantee delivery by Dec. 25. But with overnight delivery, Weiner says, "I don't see any reason why the Net couldn't serve that last-minute shopper." Better get cracking on that back end. --With reporting by Jacqueline Savaiano/Los Angeles
...turned around and headed back down doing some 20s at 3/4 slide to get the rate up: 34, then 38. Finally a couple starting sequence pieces: five, ten, and ten strokes at full pressure before taking the boat out and heading back to the hotel. I love the taper; my back feels good, my legs aren't tired, we're all full of energy...