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Turner spent 1999 guiding the offensive line at Louisiana Tech, which had the top passing attack in the nation last year, averaging 402.1 yards...
...numbers highlight a growing debate among economists over whether the rules of the economy have changed. While the Fed remains wedded to the orthodoxy that growth above 3.5 percent must eventually spawn inflation, a number of other economists believe that productivity increases brought on by the new high-tech economy have fundamentally altered the rules, allowing for higher growth rates without inflation. "The latest numbers suggest the Fed has to be more open to the idea that the economy may have changed fundamentally," says Baumohl. "If they remain locked in to their current thinking, there's a danger that they...
Last week the Dow's blue chips soared, the tech-heavy NASDAQ followed its 5000-point close with a three-day fizzle, and the S&P 500 rose nearly 70 points. Market watching can be a harrowing sport, so we asked designers John Ryan ('96 Olympics' Izzy), Cookie Gluck (Chicago Bulls' Benny), Wong Doody (Seattle Sonics logo) and Street Characters (Arizona Cardinals' Big Red) to give the indexes their own mascots...
...also a sign that the recording industry is getting hip to the techie start-ups it once feared. So far the labels have been slow to respond to the challenges presented by companies like MP3.com which have flourished because of their immense selection of songs and tech expertise that old-media record labels can't match. Now even bigger threats are coming from the second generation of MP3 sites, like the 10-month-old Napster.com founded by Shawn Fanning, a 19-year-old college dropout. (See following story.) "You're going to see 1 million artists and 500,000 music...
...says Kaufmann. "We've seen these prices before, although not for so sustained a period. But in and of themselves, they won't create any adverse reactions." That sanguine attitude is due, in large part, to the general shift in the economy from oil-dependent heavy industry to high-tech business...