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Tuesday: Took part in a seminar in Helsinki on the possible admission of Russia into the Council of Europe, then stopped by King's Kakadu Club, where he and his entourage unwound with several drinks and a strip show...
What happens next depends partly on what small investors do, how many speculative bond and stock holdings financed by borrowed money still have to be unwound -- and also, of course, on what the Fed does. One guess is that Greenspan may push rates up another half to three-quarters of a point but let it go at that. If so, the economy may slow somewhat, particularly as higher interest rates translate into more expensive mortgage, car-purchase and credit-card loans. Tyson, however, thinks any such effect would only balance forces that may be working for a faster expansion, keeping...
...road again, trying to shore up his 48% job-approval rating. But the one thing the toughest staff can't do is put him to bed. On Wednesday, after the President finished a round of late-night meetings on Bosnia, he went back to the residence and unwound watching the Los Angeles Clippers-Houston Rockets basketball game. He did not get to bed until well after midnight...
...first tableau showed a little owl-and-pussycat boat foundering in a tempest of billowing waves and lyrical lightning. For the next scenes, set in the land of some randy, warlike Pasha, the Soviets seemed to have unwound their every bolt of gaudy cloth. No fewer than five composers are credited with contributing to the noisy score; the choreography, some of it by Marius Petipa, is strictly cut and paste; the plot went down with the ship. But Le Corsaire provides the occasion for some florid dancing, especially in the hands of bravura technicians like Tatyana Terekhova and Farukh Ruzimatov...
Carone skated straight to the net, unwound and sent the puck out of the danger zone...