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...more people showed up to their gigs, the songs got longer and slower. A bouncy college-radio favorite, "American Jean," vanished from their live set, and was replaced by complicated works in which the incidental sound of Mary Timony's fingers sliding along the guitar neck, or the slow boom of mallets on drums, might be as important to a song as the sequence of chords and riffs, On a good night, the effect was cathartic, hypnotic; on a bad night (which mostly meant a night with a bad sound engineer), the new songs sounded sludgy, draggy or muffled...
Leverett House pre-med advisor Rodney J. Taylorsays that the start of the boom in applicantscoincided with the financial instability of thelate '80s and the stock market crash in October...
With each of the aftershocks, which have totaled more than 5,000 of varying intensity, the fears have assumed a pervasive, even obsessive dimension. One store reported a sudden boom in $2,000 steel-canopy beds capable of withstanding "an entire collapsing roof." Conversations are dominated by the quake. True tales of the fateful moment at 4:31 a.m. are told and retold: how in one Sherman Oaks home a water bed went wild, flipped its occupant against the ceiling and then heaved him against the wall as though to suffocate...
...inflation to blossom eventually and force much bigger interest-rate increases that really would stop growth. But others contend that low rates are the biggest reason why a disappointingly slow recovery has finally quickened into a promising advance. Raising borrowing costs now, they fear, will choke off the budding boom, in part by making purchases of such things as houses and cars harder to finance. Republican Congressman Toby Roth of Wisconsin complained to Greenspan last week, "Many of us feel that you're taking away the punch bowl as the guests are still taking their coats off." But Fed officials...
...what you should have done in the '50s," says a Japanese diplomat. "Today you should be softer. Kim's bottom line is still his regime's survival, but victory is defined differently this time. Kim knows the way to win in the '90s is by joining the Asian economic boom rather than by armed conflict. Clinton has already made one mistake. He should have told Kim, 'You say you don't have the Bomb. O.K., we believe you.' Then, quietly, he should have begun to deal. Now, when everything is public and so much pride is on the line...