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...clear sign that the euphoria that greeted Bill Clinton's election has ended. Propelled by optimism about the new President, consumer confidence soared in the final three months of 1992 and the economy expanded a healthy 4.7%. But Treasury officials now privately concede that the pace of growth could dip below 2% in the first quarter of this year and bump along at no more than 3% for all of 1993. That would do little to lower the unemployment rate, which has been stuck for the past two months...
...incoming class accepted this week--2,084 of 13,865 applicants, or 15 percent--will also be more racially diverse than recent classes, reversing last year's dip in Black enrollment...
Just one short week after the "storm of the century," it doesn't look like spring. Piles of snow and ice still line the streets of Harvard Square, temperatures dip below freezing and students are more likely to be clad in topcoats than tank tops...
...reality, nobody except the dead stopped eating. Restaurant employment jumped from 8 million in 1985 to more than 9 million today. Table-service revenues actually jumped in 1986 -- the year of the tax act -- and they grew more than 6% a year until 1989, when the recession prompted a dip. In 1992 sales began to rebound. Of course, high-ticket restaurants in particular have taken a beating, but that probably has more to do with a general post-1980s decline in lavish spending than it does with the deductibility of meals...
...teaching an acrobatic swing class. We did this one dip which we called the death drop dip. If the man lost his balance, his partner could definitely get hurt," says Kreshtool, explaining the need for precautions...