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...next President, whether it's Al Gore or George W. Bush, will inherit the sunniest economic prospects to greet any new Chief Executive since Lyndon Johnson in 1963. Yes, it looks like the output of goods and services will be increasing more slowly. But the growth rate will slip only from one that clearly was too fast to last to a pace that can be kept up for years. And the new rate, somewhere between 3% and 4%, will still be so rapid that it would have been considered outright boomy not long ago. Unemployment will still be low, jobs...
...McDavitt showed flashes of brilliance in the second half of the Vermont game as the only Crimson player to slip one past red-hot Catamount goaltender Holly Colberg in the second half. Colberg faced 13 Crimson shots, but only McDavitt had the finesse to find the back...
...Despite its obvious stake in the debate, the Times took the high road, running a prim article about Bush's slip: "While waiting to speak, he leaned over to his running mate, Dick Cheney, and used an obscenity to describe a New York Times correspondent, Adam Clymer, who was in the crowd...
...While dealing with the ongoing Firestone p.r. disaster (and watching its stock slip 10 percent), Ford had to close two plants making high-profit Ranger trucks just to free up replacement tires. The tire flap is growing: A tire expert and former Firestone/Bridgestone employee is calling for a widening of the recall to all sizes of the ATX series, and next month John McCain wants to drag everybody concerned in front of the Senate Commerce Committee for public hearings...
...after long hours out on the campaign trail. And Monday night, during a campaign stop in Des Moines, it happened to George W. Bush. Just about every other sentence he uttered in a 15-minute speech at a fund-raiser seemed to have a blooper in it. His first slip of the lip came when he told his audience, "When we carry Iowa in November, it'll mean the end of four years of Clinton-Gore." (He meant eight years, of course.) Next, outlining his trade policy, he promised, "I will work to end terrors," only to catch himself...