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During the talk, Siegel suggested other ways to work in the community, including planting vegetables in the Yard, collecting unsold sneakers and clothing from stores and encouraging the engineering department to focus on local real-life problems...
...heroic battle of Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize winner for her nonviolent resistance against the ruling junta, is surely worth a movie. But in Hollywood the problems of one little country--or one big country with little brown people--don't amount to a hill of unsold scripts. The Burmese must have a Caucasian mediator, Laura, whose sufferings illuminate those of the locals...
...signal as well that the U.S. economy may be starting to slacken after one of its most vigorous years in a decade. Packaging may be unglamorous, but it's a business many economists track as a harbinger of the future. When companies see unsold tables, toys and toasters piling up on their shelves, one of the first things they do is quietly cancel orders for packaging material. But the accelerating pace of such cutbacks in January could not be reflected in the backward-looking data released so far this year, including last week's report that the economy expanded...
...only 7.2% of its members reported a high volume of looker traffic in January, compared with 35.7% in January 1994-when severe winter weather in the Midwest and Northeast kept many prospects out of the market. "We are beginning to see a pretty sizable buildup in the inventory of unsold new homes,'' worries David Seiders, chief economist of the builders group...
...popular campus-wide formal ball was moved to the Gordon Track and Field Center from Memorial Hall because of construction at the former site. Because of the move, ball organizers were able to print 500 more tickets than they did last year, even though about 400 tickets were left unsold...