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...Hampshire primary falls, this year, on the day marking the longest economic expansion in U.S. history - and that boom has been making it hard for the candidates to differentiate themselves from one another. Although Tuesday's vote may produce close races in both parties as Governor George W. Bush reins in Senator John McCain's lead among GOP voters and Bill Bradley makes up ground against the vice president among Democrats, the presidential race thus far has been most notable for its lack of burning policy questions. Character, we're told, will be decisive; "authenticity" is much in demand. Looking...
...course, the candidates don't avoid talking about the economy: Al Gore does his best to bask at every turn in its warm glow, as if the boom were an achievement of the Clinton administration; while George W. Bush, for his part, uses it to sell his own supply-side tax cuts by claiming the expansion as a product of Reagan-era tax policies. But economies expand and contract according to their own rules - yes, folks, even Alan Greenspan himself would tell you that his job is closer to that of a janitor than of an architect - and aren...
...petition, circulated by resident Shannon Larkin, aims to slow the commercial construction boom in the Kendall Square area. Petition signers say the encroaching firms eliminate green space, push out smaller stores, and bring unwanted traffic...
...Microsoft's online service in 1995, the day AOL's entire service blipped off-line in 1996, the easily won reputation as America On Hold after the service opened itself up to unlimited usage. You might argue that Case was in a no-lose situation, riding the biggest boom in the history of booms. But the hollow shells of other consumer online services--eWorld, Delphi, GEnie--are a reminder that this business is as lethal as they come...
...case, the fact is that the public sector has had a hard time recruiting young talent in recent years due to the sustained boom in private industry. The last thing it needs right now is to alienate half of the pool of potential employees, because there are plenty of tech firms out there that don't seem to care about the gender of who's making them money...