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...supply increase, but they're interested in doing this in a coordinated way - of building a consensus, so that some countries don't drastically increase production and slash prices." OPEC is also said to be concerned about sparking a recesssion, which would be likely to cause an uncontrollable dip in oil prices...
...John Quincy Adams liked to skinny-dip in the Potomac...
...weather data for the same time period and then makes projections from long-range weather forecasts. The formula is a lot more complex than the simple deduction that cold weather equals sales. Regional buying habits, for example, are taken into account. In Jacksonville, Fla., fire logs sell when temperatures dip into the 60s. In San Francisco, people buy when it's rainy. And in hardy Chicago, the mercury has to drop below 39[degrees]F for folks to gather round the hearth. "Before, it was tough to know whether a shift of 4[degrees] in temperature made any difference...
...actor who comes to the screen in youth is like an IPO; audiences invest themselves in his future. After Titanic, the DiCaprio stock was goofily inflated. In the wake of The Beach, it may dip. But we should not confuse the achievement of an actor--especially one as daring, engaging and resourceful as DiCaprio--with the popularity or even success of any one film. He and we are in it for the long run. It ought to be an adventure, following the Kid on a career-long journey in search of his best or most dangerous self...
...roller coaster of U.S.-Cuban relations took a sharp dip Thursday with the arrest of a top Immigration and Naturalization Service official accused of spying for Havana. Cuban-born Mariano Faget, one of the most prominent INS agents in Southern Florida, is accused of relaying U.S. defense secrets to Cuba and of helping Cuban spies infiltrate American borders. The FBI got wind of Faget's activities when a surveillance investigation called Operation False Blue allegedly found him engaged in unauthorized correspondence with Cuban intelligence officials. The bureau then set up a sting in which American agents told Faget...