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...trade deficit is starting to move in the right direction," said Lawrence Chimerine, president of Wharton Economics. "But most people forget that adjustments bringing this about have a negative side effect: a weaker dollar, wage cuts, a squeezing of purchasing power and a pushing up of interest rates...
...central theme: the manners and mores of well-to- do New Yorkers, not restricted to the fabled 400 of old Manhattan society but not much exceeding a few thousand either. There are those who think this subject was pretty well exhausted by the time Henry James and Edith Wharton got through with it. Others argue that portraits of the genteel rich are beside the point in this century of the common man. Yet Auchincloss, 69, periodically turns out a book so sparkling and assured as to render such complaints irrelevant...
...Joanne B. Ciulla, a former post-doctoral fellow at the B-School who nowteaches at the Wharton School of Business atUniversity of Pennsylvania, said she thoughtHarvard should approach these decisions carefully...
According to Harvard bureau chief Peter A. Robertson '88, Frankel also needed a plan to create a profitable business for one of his classes at Penn's Wharton School of Business. So after doing research into the logistics of such an inter-Ivy publication, he began to create a "network through friends and contacts" of students at the different campuses to write and distribute his brainchild, Frankel said...
...disintegrating bodies (The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar), accusatory objects (The Purloined Letter) and doomed homes (The Fall of the House of Usher) -- all now standard props of horror. Once the genre was taken seriously, American writers as naturalistic as Jack London and as refined as Edith Wharton used those special effects and sojourned in those underground passages, and they have been accompanied by hundreds of others, perhaps none more influential than Henry James...