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...what economists call "exogenous shocks"--a fancy term for unforeseen events like Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait--could shatter the rosy forecasts. So could overzealous monetary tightening by the Fed, which may nudge up interest rates for the second time this year when it meets next week. "Expansions don't die of old age," says David Wyss, research director for DRI/McGraw Hill. "But, like people, they do become vulnerable to shocks." This time around, says Wyss, there seems to be enough cushioning to get us to the next millennium in style...
...high, a task that is, after all, the CEO's job. Those lush profits have helped the stock market soar, as anyone with a mutual fund plainly knows. And it is that bull market that has turned millions upon millions of stock options into pure CEO gold, in cartloads unforeseen by anyone...
...last forlorn fantasy--that all those Gentile spouses would eventually become Jews--was punctured by a meager 9% conversion rate. In fact, 54% of the children in all Jewish households are not being raised as Jews. The result, often feared but never quite in this context: "Saving an unforeseen reversal of current trends, it appears...that the history of the Jews as we have known it and them is probably approaching...
Every parent dreads the unforeseen disaster, the one you cannot possibly save your children from, the one that will be announced with a phone call or sudden message, one that will change your life forever, "the feeling," Bill Cosby described in 1987, "of your child going out to play, going to the store, going to visit Grandma or Uncle, and not coming back home." On Thursday morning, Joanne Curley-Kerner, line producer for Cosby's cbs sitcom, received disturbing calls from tabloid-TV reporters seeking to verify rumors out of Los Angeles. She tried to confirm them with the l.a.p.d...
...catch is right there on the information label: "Olestra may cause abdominal cramping and loose stools." Both Frito-Lay and P&G claim their test marketing hasn't turned up any unforeseen health problems. Nevertheless, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the watchdog organization that warned Americans against the fat content of movie popcorn, is lobbying the FDA to rescind its approval of olestra, claiming that the additive is not as harmless as claimed...