Word: summering
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Think of all they would have to talk about, if Al Gore and George W. Bush could go out for a burger to savor their victories this week and resist the temptation to rip each other's throat out. Who would have thought last summer that Bush would have the near death experience, or that Gore, in the course of flattening Bill Bradley, would manage to climb to a dead heat with Bush after lagging 17 points behind in January--and have even more money left over? After their long distraction, the two presumptive nominees finally get to concentrate...
...outlook for bank stocks couldn't be any uglier. We're a lock for higher short-term interest rates when the Fed meets March 21, and a rate boost or two after that seems likely before summer. Rising short-term rates squeeze bank profit margins and, more important, dampen loan demand. That's why bank stocks have been crashing faster than your favorite ATM, shedding 40% of their value since interest rates started climbing rapidly more than a year...
...meetings, forswearing party soft money--sounded high-minded, but it was really wishful thinking. Without some sort of seismic shift in the ground rules, Gore faces a daunting task: keeping the Democratic National Committee flush enough to compete with the expected barrage of G.O.P. TV ads all spring and summer...
...never too late--or too early--to reap the advantages of a college education. During the summer, some colleges sponsor a rich array of learning opportunities, both on and off campus, for adults and youngsters. A sampling...
Packing a bagpipe and tin whistles, Henry and Fran Frantz will head for the mountains this summer. With their children Becca and Hank, the Decatur, Ga., couple will be making music at the Swannanoa Gathering held at WARREN WILSON COLLEGE in Asheville, N.C. From July 9 through Aug. 5, the campus plays host to six one-week workshops led by fiddlers, pipers, guitarists, step dancers and folklorists from around the world. Three of the workshops--Celtic Week, Sing Swing and String Week and Old-Time Music Week--welcome adults and children...