The City of Dallas has a real problem with this statistic. A proposal that was supposed to help police fight more crime has instead led to a predictable increase in crime. This is why fewer than 30 of the nation's approximate 18,000 police departments utilize verified response. |
The Constitutional Court agreed not to investigate into a petition submitted by 28 senators. Eight judges voted to reject the petition, and six judges supported the petition. The petition lacks substantial proof that the prime minister had been involved in corporate management. |
The damage is done now. Homes are flooded. To me, the bigger question is: Is this going to happen again, or do we have a plan to keep it from happening in the event we have another major hurricane in two weeks? We're sitting here vulnerable, and the hurricane season isn't over. |
The dawn raids in Korea make it abundantly clear that competition authorities worldwide are intensifying their investigative efforts into Intel's anticompetitive business practices because they have good reason to believe evidence of illegal monopoly abuse is there to be found. |
The decision to close these under-performing stores, which do not meet our financial requirements going forward, is an integral part of the company's reorganization effort, ... We are confident that doing so will provide the company with a healthier, more productive store base. |
The defense has progressed very well. It has been a process and that happens anytime there is a change like that. The new terminology and new system take awhile, but the guys have bought into the system, and they are playing hard. We just have to keep improving and keep coming. |
The deficit in 2006 is almost certain to increase, because the bulk of spending for Katrina and Rita will occur in 2006, ... What's worse is that when the Congressional Budget Office factors the Bush agenda into the budget, CBO sees the deficit doubling to $640 billion in 2015. |
The departure of our boys to foreign parts with the ever-present possibility that they might never return, taught the real value of photography to every father and mother. To many a mother the photograph of her boy in his country's uniform was the one never-failing consolation. |
The destructive effects of corruption is most evident in smuggling, which is possible only with the collusion of rotten officials at the Bureau of Customs and elsewhere. Jobs are being wasted as domestic industries stagger from the atrocious and ruinous activities of smugglers. |
The dirty little secret of the Internet is that most of the content you see each day costs nothing, because you pay for it in other ways. You pay for it by supplying additional pieces of information about yourself to advertisers every time you click on a page or add a new link. |
The dominance of the handset subsidy model and 12-month upgrade cycles in Western Europe combined with the introduction of a number of highly publicized, multimedia-oriented high-end handsets to drive demand in a mature market that is witnessing saturation of subscriber growth, |
The early read from the Home Depot meeting is mixed, ... Though we feel that the company is generally positive as earnings-per-share estimates should go up, our enthusiasm is tempered by what looks like a lower [total] sales and comparable sales number for their fourth quarter. |
The easing the Fed has already done has had a focused and limited effect, mainly on sales of homes and automobiles. It's not clear another rate cut will have much effect. I think fiscal easing is more effective at this point; it more directly puts money in people's pocketbooks. |
The economy is doing fine. We're at the lowest unemployment rates in a generation. Inflation is hard to find. There's just aren't the kinds of problems that would induce to you take new medicine. So if the medicine at the moment is a 4-3/4 percent Fed funds rate, keep it there. |
The end of the war won't produce a starburst of economic growth, nor will it unleash a tidal wave of business spending, ... Instead, we'll get just enough business and economic activity to keep us from slipping back into recession and to set us up for stronger growth next year. |