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Stock market doesn’t flinch despite economic data
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That was deeper than the 3. 1 percent cut initially reported and marked the biggest reduction since the second quarter of 1980, when the country was in the grip of recession. Consumers have grown nervous about spending because of job losses, declining investment portfolios and sinking home values. Underscoring the strain, the report showed that Americans#145; disposable income fell at an annual rate of 9. 2 percent in the third quarter, the largest quarterly drop on records dating back to 1947. The government#145;s initial estimate had showed a record 8. 7 percent decline in disposable income for the quarter.
Home Grown Terrorism and the Original Crime of the Century – An …
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Got to credit former New York Times and Vanity Fair reporter, HOWARD BLUM, for uncovering this vital story. He wraps it in a creative narrative that says sweeping historical movie. (The book has been optioned for film by the creatives behind the ROSEANNE and HOME IMPROVEMENT TV shows) There are titans practically on every CD. Times founder, HARRISON GRAY OTIS; son-in-law, HARRY CHANDLER; Socialist leader EUGENE DEBS, Union organizer SAMUEL GOMPERS and the three leads of the piece: celebrated detective WILLIAM J. “BILLY” BURNS, called America’s SHERLOCK HOLMES; legendary defense lawyer CLARENCE DARROW, and Hollywood film pioneer D.
Hillenbrand, Inc. F4Q08 (Qtr End 9/30/08) Earnings Call Transcript
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?A funeral home owner in North Attleborough, Massachusetts had recently returned to us as a Batesville customer. He told us, ?We never thought we would have seen families so interested in personalization, additional choices and the numerous options allowed. ? This customer said that ?returning to Batesville has made a tremendous impact to our bottom line and our profitability has grown significantly. ?On the other end of the country in Bakersfield, California a funeral director said that his families appreciate how easy it is to use the selection room and that the kiosk has an option for Spanish. ?But most of all,? he told us, ?my staff loves working with it. Also I shouldn?t forget to mention that my average margin increased.
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Life after the island
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Don and Kathy Gerace have discovered, can be difficult. They’ve never had any children together, yet the Geraces are going through what every parent must — their creation has grown up, and they have grown older. Whether they like it or not, it’s time to move on. More than 30 years ago, Don Gerace (pronounced Jer-race) founded a scientific research institute on San Salvador Island in the Bahamas. It was there he met his wife, Kathy, who found her way to the island as a teacher. They married, and together the two of them built, from the ground up, a world-renowned scientific center that has since aided in the studies of 32,000 biology students, 18,000 geology students and 4,000 architects.
PLAN JOLTS FAMILIESWestar Wants to Expand a Substation in Emporia …
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Westar has about 1,000 substations scattered across its territory to convert high-voltage electricity to a form consumable in homes and businesses. Westar civil engineer Cindy Risch said the company took complaints of unusual sounds and stray voltage seriously, because both could be indicators of impending equipment failure. She said the load pushed through the substation had grown each year since 2005 but not substantially. Hypothetically, Risch said, a grid of copper wire buried beneath the substation to provide protection to workers inside the perimeter might be leaking voltage. The Evans home is 10 feet from the substation’s chain-link fence. Bill Hines, Westar’s operations director in Wichita, said considerable manpower was devoted to examining safety claims made by people residing around the Emporia substation, but nothing out of the ordinary was found. “We did a lot of investigation and thus far have not found anything,” Hines said.
In a wide-ranging interview, Palfrey and Zittrain survey the …
Harvard Law School News,nbsp;MAnbsp;
Code is riddled with things like the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992, which was seeking to regulate a particular technology, digital audiotape, which never took hold. And there are much worse examples. Jonathan and I have written a book on Internet censorship, ?Access Denied. ? You can look across the world and see laws that were meant to address what may have been real problems but which have much greater ramifications than anyone who passed them could have imagined. One of the issues John?s book raises is digital overload, including multitasking.