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WASHINGTON: Maybe it's the summer weather. Or the falling yen. But Alan Greenspan just doesn't wow 'em like he used to. "The current economic performance, with its combination of strong growth and low inflation, is as impressive as any I have witnessed in my near half-century of daily observation of the American economy," Greenspan said Wednesday in testimony before the congressional Joint Economic Committee...
...really nice," said Ben W. Reichardt '01 during Orientation Week. "Every time we bring somebody over, they're like `Wow...
When I was accepted to Harvard, everyone I told had the same response: "Wow! You got into Harvard?" I was instantly elevated to a higher level in their minds just because I was now a "Harvard student." But even though everyone suddenly thought I was smart and successful, I had never felt so inadequate in my life...
Many of us have had similar experiences--standard reactions to admitted Harvard undergraduate status seem to include: the impromptu vocabulary quiz, the "Wow, you must be really smart," and, for the comedian, the "Is it hard work there? Ha, ha," and the "Harvard? Never heard of it, ha, ha.' "If I had a nickel for every time somebody said, 'Oh, I've heard of that...'" adds Lidsky...
...quoted in a story by The Associated Press, there may be "some psychological factor that can exert its impact cumulatively over the years...At every stage it's a little tiny depressant to be called PIG, or a little tiny boost to your esteem to be called ACE or WOW...