Word: reading
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...course, that has been remarkable. The boom, marked by rising income, skyrocketing consumer confidence and general expansion, has also remained notably unmarred by the specter of inflation. Wages have escaped the pressure usually placed on them by a booming economy, with increased productivity - some attributed to worker "flexibility" (read longer hours), some to technological advances - absorbing much of the strain caused by ever-fattening paychecks...
...least of all Greenspan, who has been raising interest rates steadily to prevent things from overheating. And, in fact, the modest increases of one half or one quarter percent are a constant reminder that an eventual downturn is not only a possibility but a certainty. "Everything that I've read suggests the economy will cool off this year," says TIME economics writer Frank Gibney...
Barksdale, 56, and his wife Sally gave $100 million to their alma mater, the University of Mississippi, to promote reading in the state that ranks last in literacy (a third of its adults can't read a sports story or a map). The couple's donation will provide every child from kindergarten through Grade 3 with the sort of help with reading that got Barksdale launched...
...Sally Barksdale had been thinking about ways they could promote literacy in Mississippi. Richard Thompson, the state superintendent of education, says he read about the Barksdales' interest in a newspaper, "so I called Jim up." After long conversations, a joint venture was created between Ole Miss, the state department of education and seven other state universities. The effort, says Barksdale, will attack illiteracy "at the source," in the early grades. It will also teach illiterate parents to read, so they can help their kids...
...year-old Skakel and writer Richard Hoffman, Elan was the scene of a flamboyant--and possibly fateful--therapy. Those who have seen the proposal for Dead Man Talking: A Kennedy Cousin Comes Clean say that in it Skakel describes being made to wear a sign around his neck. It read: I AM AN ARROGANT RICH BRAT. CONFRONT ME ON WHY I KILLED MY FRIEND MARTHA...