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...late-night phone calls, in marathon meetings and over bagels, orange juice and quiche, these three men--Robert Rubin, Alan Greenspan and Larry Summers--are working to stop what has become a plague of economic panic. Their biggest shield is an astonishingly robust U.S. economy. Growth at year's end was north of 5%--double what economists had expected--and unemployment is at a 28-year low. By fighting off one collapse after another--and defending their economic policy from political meddling--the three men have so far protected American growth, making investors deliriously, perhaps delusionally, happy in the process...
When 2000 arrives, our undoing won't be a massive computer problem [Y2KY2KY2KY2KY2KY2K, Jan. 18] but the public's senseless panic triggered by the radical sensationalism surrounding the issue today. Instead of fueling fear, the media should reassure people that the new millennium is not something to be dreaded. But it may be too late. Just imagine what lies in store economically if terrified individuals begin making drastic withdrawals from bank accounts and selling off stocks. We would be better off sitting tight, staying calm and letting the computer programmers do their job rather than getting ready for a Judgment...
...focused as ever on spending my time at Harvard wisely, but I just cannot worry myself into a state of panic over my impending graduation." Jones says. She is taking career preparation in stride, saying that "LSATs, MCATs, these and fellowship applications take time, but they are a necessary--and not always a miserable--part of the Harvard experience...
...When things start going poorly, we panic,"Miller said. "The reason we did not win is becausewe did not communicate and we did not run ouroffenses. Had we simply run one of our offensiveplays, we would have won the game...
...beleaguered American Medical Association made another dubious decision? An AMA source says panic over potential wrath from Republicans was the prime reason for the firing last week of GEORGE LUNDBERG, 65, longtime editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, who the AMA said was booted for "inappropriately and inexcusably interjecting JAMA into the middle of a debate that has nothing to do with science or medicine." The sin? Lundberg published a study--begun in 1991, analyzed in '95 and presented to JAMA in late '98--on the attitudes of U.S. college students toward sex. Among the findings...