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With the boomers leading the way, the demand for stock has soared in the face of a dwindling number of shares--a textbook prescription for prices to head north. Investors pumped more than $220 billion into stock mutual funds in 1996, nearly double the $128 billion registered in 1995. The bulk of the new money represents "patient" capital from boomers saving up for retirement, according to the Investment Company Institute, the mutual-fund-industry trade group. And the trend keeps getting stronger. Some $24 billion of fresh money flowed into stock mutual funds in January, double the amount...
...Coop's cavernous pockets. I must confess to belong to this last group of students. I buy only a couple of books at a time, hoping that perhaps next time there will be an unprecedented sale shelf or that maybe I misread that the price of my flimsy paperback textbook is more than $50. I have an irrational expectation that somehow by making numerous visits to the Coop, the grand total of the cost of my books will be less than the cost if I'd just bought them all at one fell swoop. Needless to say my technique...
First, make textbook lists public. As of now, all students inevitably find themselves forced to buy at the Coop. Although some humanities textbooks are available at other bookstores, science textbooks can rarely be found elsewhere. Notebooks, pens, and other non-essentials--even Harvard insignia clothing--exist at other stores in the square. But the Coop has a virtual monopoly on textbooks, the fundamental item in every class, and prices them uncompetitively. If other bookstores had access to these lists, students would get better deals as numerous bookstores vied for their attention...
...economics in Ec 10. But, according to an article in last Sunday's New York Times, the same is not true in Russia. Yes, Russia. According to the article, first-graders in Russia are being taught concepts such as profit, loss and capital accumulation. The article reports: "A new textbook published this year, Economics for Little Ones or How Misha Became a Businessman, tells the story of a simple but industrious bear who opens a...store in the forest. His sole competitor is described as Winnie the Pooh's Over-priced Golden Beehive Cooperative, and Misha soon trades his apron...
Timing it perfectly, Sproule slid the puck across the crease to Allman who finished the textbook play by burying the puck...