Condoleezza Rice insists that all she wants be is the best secretary of state she can be, and can't imagine running for president. Perhaps. But a lot of other people have no trouble imagining it. Four years is an eternity in politics, and the secretary of state has a lot of heavy lifting ahead. |
Consumers will continue to spend, and that will keep the economy chugging along for the next few months. But without some help, I worry that consumers could begin to falter later in the year. We need more business spending to fuel the economy's shift into a higher gear and sustain the recovery. |
Contrary to the claims of proponents of the bankruptcy law changes that they would zero in on the alleged legions of 'deadbeats' who supposedly were crippling the U.S. economy ... the federal bankruptcy law changes that went into effect on Oct. 17, 2005, are doing no measurable good whatsoever. |
Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don't just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn't just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards. |
Dana Reeve's death highlights the fact that lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in women in the U.S., claiming 30,000 more lives annually than breast cancer. It is not unique that she developed lung cancer as a non-smoker -- at least 1 in 5 women with lung cancer have never smoked. |
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DHEC will be receiving about 250,000 doses of flu vaccine this season, with initial supplies arriving in late September and early October. DHEC will follow the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's recommendation that those in high-risk groups should be the first to be immunized. |
Dubai, as a leading regional trading hub, provides access to outstanding potential, large and growing markets, as Dubai's total non-oil foreign trade during the last few years has witnessed a remarkable growth which reached 126 per cent, with an annual rate of growth that reached 22.6 per cent. |
DuPont is proud of the role we have played in protecting law enforcement officers over the past three decades. We continue to work on developing new technology to make vests lighter, stronger, more durable, and ultimately, more likely to be worn by law enforcement officers, like Officer Grogan. |
During the time I've been here I believe the company has made significant progress toward the goals we all had in mind when I came. We're now seen as a leader in our industry on a number of dimensions, ... I believe the business is being well managed and is heading in a very positive direction. |
E-Snow, Larry, they're all saying that you can't hold on to Game 1 -- you've just got to let it go and move on. Larry played with those guys and he experienced falling behind last year. Coach [Mike] Brown has said the same thing. So I don't think anyone is going to be overconfident on our team. |
Earlier in the year we would have rolled over and gave up on a game like that. We would have said 'We screwed up and lost 6-5, who cares?' The way (manager) Buddy Bell has taken over and the way things have changed in this locker-room, we know when we get down we have some offence to come back. |
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Errors have hurt us all year long. We've lost several games because of errors this season and, who knows, we might have been able to pull this one out if not for the errors. It's getting frustrating. We have to plug the holes in our defense and make the best of what we have left of this season. |
Even if it manages to avoid breaching its covenant this quarter, the company may not be able to forestall the debt-covenant day of reckoning much longer, as long as its EBITDA continues to erode, ... And that is the substance of our story - that Gap is flirting with a serious liquidity problem. |