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What is going on here? By all accounts, the 5 1/2-year-old economic expansion should be fizzling out. Already ancient by historical standards, the upswing appeared to have suffered a devastating blow when the stock market crashed last October. But, defying expectations, the economy is still running and even blowing off...
/ Whatever hopes brokers had for a rebound the next day were thwarted by another burst of bad news. The U.S. Government revealed that producer prices surged by 0.6% in March, after dropping 0.2% the month before. Though it was only a one-month figure, and one that may be an...
Nowadays a zippy chorus or two of Happy Days Are Here Again would not be out of order either. After its initial burst of prosperity, the computer industry | fell into a two-year slump that some feared might signal a permanent slowdown in growth. The good news in computerdom is...
While IBM, Compaq and Tandy fight it out in the IBM-compatible marketplace, Apple (1986 revenues: $2 billion) continues to thrive by going its own way with machines that run on different software. The company's products have long been favored by educators and hobbyists, but now more corporate customers...
In light of the death last summer of University of Maryland basketball star Len Bias from cocaine intoxication and the crisis in sports revenue that many smaller schools are facing, the Ivy League philosophy seems to be on the upswing, according to some athletic officials.