Word: wallful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...specter is haunting Wall Street--the specter of runaway interest rates. Yields on bellwether U.S. 30-year Treasury bonds in early June jumped to just over 6%, the highest close in more than a year, as nervous traders bid prices lower. They are taking no chances that a flare-up of inflation will squeeze the real return to buyers...
That is the conclusion of TIME's Board of Economists, which met recently in Manhattan to assess prospects for the U.S. economy and stock market. And that opinion comes from Wall Street itself; on this occasion the board was composed of influential investment advisers, chosen to offer a different perspective from academic and corporate economists. The panelists disagreed considerably on the likely course of the stock market and the broader economy next year and after. But on the subjects of inflation and interest rates they chorused in unison: not to worry...
Nobody foresees a continuation of the phenomenal 1998 rise in gross domestic product--a sizzling 6% annual rate in the fourth quarter, 3.9% for the year. But Cohen, true to her reputation as Wall Street's leading optimist, thinks the U.S. is in a "virtuous cycle" that will keep spinning, if a bit more slowly. The U.S., she notes, has created a stunning 15.5 million jobs since the end of 1993, even after subtracting job losses due to corporate downsizing. And two-thirds of these jobs pay more than the median wage for all U.S. jobs. By no coincidence, average...
...evidence is visible at house No. 19. The house spills its contents across the front porch, out the windows, across the garden. Broken glass mingles with an X ray, torn curtains and a pile of feces in the front hall. Across the long wall in the main room, letters are scrawled, 1 ft. high, in what appears to be blood: NATO AND KILLERS OF SERB BLOOD AND YOU KILL SERB KIDS. The opposite wall is sprayed with blood, and dried puddles stain the floor beneath. Next to the lettering are bloody hand prints...
Familiar as the scene is, Vedder--a conservationist who began studying gorillas in Rwanda in 1978 with Dian Fossey--can't help noticing that it's also a bit surreal. For one thing, she's standing behind a wall of thick, protective glass. For another, she is not actually visiting the gorillas' home range; rather, they're visiting hers. Just to the west, after all, stands Yankee Stadium. Next to that is a subway station for the IRT line that runs straight into Manhattan...