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...ahead at an annual rate of 5.4% in the first quarter. That was below the superheated 7.3% pace in the previous three months yet still well above what the wildest optimists would consider a sustainable pace. However, Chris Varvares, president of Macroeconomic Advisers, a consulting firm with headquarters in St. Louis, Mo., expects a "fairly abrupt" slowing in the second half of the year to below 3%, which will hold gross-domestic-product growth for the year to 5%. Ed Yardeni, chief economist of Deutsche Bank, agrees, largely because he believes the skyrocketing rise of stock prices in late...
...St. Patrick's Day a couple of years ago, I found myself in the ideal spot to celebrate the occasion - the highlands of Papua New Guinea, as far from New York City as it is possible to be without the aid of a Saturn booster. My hosts lived in the Stone Age, perhaps a generation removed from head-hunting, but they seemed to me, on the whole, more civilized than those whey-faced, bleary tribesmen back in New York (some of my own savage people, long ago) who were busy honoring their particular heritage by vomiting in the gutters outside...
Creative Memories, based in St. Cloud, Minn., trains consultants in scrapbooking techniques. It certified 49,000 last year, a fourfold increase over 1996. These consultants then teach at "crop parties" (named after the cropping, or trimming, of photos) where they peddle the products of Creative Memories. There is even a place called the Scrap & Spa in Union Pier, Mich., on the shore of Lake Michigan, that offers a weekend of massages, pedicures and scrapbooking for $215. It's booked solid through November...
...Scott) and Tom (First) of Nantucket Nectars rent the former D.U. final club building with big plans to move their multi-million dollar headquarters and to open a juice bar at the 45 Dunster St. site. But after heavy lobbying from the Harvard Square Defense Fund, Cambridge's zoning board allows the juice guys to only set up their corporate shop in the Square, denying them a license for selling their fruity concoctions...
...Dartmouth was the prototypical ECAC team in 1999-2000--young, talented and playing over its head. With teams like Dartmouth, St. Lawrence and Niagara providing more competition, Harvard found itself unable to win every game as it had the year before, even in overtime...