Word: slowdowns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Attempts to rectify a College-wide slowdown in e-mail service over recent days culminated last night in a total shutdown of the central FAS Unix system for repair work...
Though unsure of the specific cause of the slowdown, officials pointed to a dramatic increase in the quantity of e-mail received by the University's system, the use of mail retrieval programs, like Eudora, and the flurry of mass mailings, such as election-related messages, as factors that contributed to the problem...
...this is of little comfort to e-mail-dependent students like Eileen woo '01, who said she found the e-mail slowdown extremely inconvenient."There's always the phone still, I guess," she said...
...finally time to invest in Japan? There's virtually no growth. Bank lending is contracting, and jobs are scarce. The greater Asia slowdown promises to deepen Japan's woes. "This is a catastrophe," says Carl Weinberg at High Frequency Economics. At a conference with senior Japanese executives, notes Allen Sinai of Primark Decision Economics, "I was absolutely flabbergasted by the pessimism." Picking market bottoms is never easy. When they occur, pessimism and words like catastrophe are usually in evidence, as is some element of resolve. It's all there in Japan today. The question isn't whether things will...
...even if that chain of events never occurs, some analysts believe the U.S. is headed for a recession, or severe slowdown, in 1998, all on its own. If they are right, Monday's plunge may have been the first shot across the proverbial bow, with others to follow. Those who so quickly dismissed the sell-off and are now boasting of buying at the bottom may find they were wrong...