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...Like the GDP. The Dow ran up 210 points on the simple news that in the third quarter, the economy cooled much faster than anybody expected, notching a 2.7 percent annual growth rate, the lowest since spring 1999. That's down from the torrid 5.6 percent in the second quarter and almost a full percentage point lower than what analysts had expected. For a change, it was the kind of surprise they like...
...list of hurlers whose careers were cut short by blown-out arms is long. In the U.S., a starting pitcher typically throws between 100 and 140 pitches a game. In Japan, 200-pitch games are not unheard of. The wear-and-tear on Matsuzaka's arm from his torrid schedule as a high-schooler might well come back to haunt him. "I worry about his future because he throws a lot compared to American pitchers and even other Japanese pitchers," says Isao Ojimi, a former pro player in Japan who now scouts talent for the New York Mets. "Managers...
While dating his cheerleading love interest, the ubiquitous Sarah Michelle Gellar ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer"), Alan (Grenier) embraces a hedonistic Harvard lifestyle and starts a torrid affair with his philosophy professor...
...upperclass student. I felt like the coolest first-year I'd met. My fatal misstep, however, came later that week when, in a roomful of his friends, I snuggled up to him on a couch and took his hand without a second thought. After a second torrid evening, he called me out into the Eliot courtyard to talk--this wasn't going to work out. I stared moodily out the gate at the Charles and cried...
Greenspan's goal is to slow the economy just enough to quell inflationary pressures resulting from torrid growth and rising wages. He pulled it off with a series of rate increases in 1994. Still, economic engineering is inexact. The risk is that he'll overstep, slowing things to the point where consumers disappear, corporate profits tumble and layoffs mount. It's a legitimate fear voiced by a growing number of Greenspan detractors...