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Despite Wechsler's feeling that heavy drinkers respond best to tough policies, disciplinary actions taken by the Ad Board for underage drinking have never risen to the level of what the College considers actual punitive measures--probation or worse--Lewis says...
...from the Bronx made good with no special favors - as well as a remarkable track record in the military, an almost unprecedented wealth of goodwill from across the political spectrum and a commanding moral authority. It's that special sort of Cinderella moral authority reserved for those who have risen by fairly and squarely beating the odds stacked against "outsiders." Qualities, indeed, that more than compensate for the stature gap of a President-elect who can't truly hide the fact that he's the consummate insider...
...with a mix of steady growers like food and drug stocks; companies that benefit from falling interest rates like banks, insurers, utilities and real estate investment trusts; and beaten-down cyclical stocks like home builders and retailers, which will rebound with a recovery. Some stocks in these groups have risen sharply in the past year, especially utilities, so pay attention to valuations. Or you can diversify easily through value-oriented mutual funds, like Clipper and Berger Small Cap Value...
...teach underprivileged kids. Yet the plenitude of educational gifts heaped upon students at Preuss--small classes, a rigorous curriculum, tutors--makes it hard to isolate which reforms matter most. But students like Rucobo don't mind, and the test scores of the first class of Preuss students have already risen more than...
...necessarily negative. By big corporations holding on to their workforce, these people are still working, still getting paid, and therefore still providing a basis for consumer spending. If unemployment had risen, consumer confidence would have slowed even faster. These numbers mean consumer confidence may not fall further, and could even pick up again by the summer. On the whole these are interesting and even beneficial number for the economy...