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...closest I came to really quitting was in August, after I started getting stabbing pains in my leg. I went on the patch and had to stop drinking alcohol, coffee, and soda. I couldn’t eat proper meals because I always had a cigarette after a meal. I avoided hanging around any friends who smoked...
Then, sometime in early August, the campaign pivoted. Realizing that Romney was poised to perhaps win most of the first four or five states, and thus create the appearance of inevitability before the race even reached February 5, Giuliani's team rebooted and sent the candidate to Iowa and New Hampshire. He has since spent a markedly larger percentage of his time in those two states, particularly New Hampshire. Giuliani was not really expecting to beat Romney in the first two states, only slow him down, take the air of inevitability out of him, and - who knows? - maybe pull...
...showing Huckabee's surge into a first-place tie with Romney was taken after Thompson received the NRLC endorsement. Thompson's improvement has cheered up his supporters and advisers, but some wonder whether it has come too late to carry him deep into the primaries. "I wish it were August," laments one outside consultant. "You get to the point in a campaign where it's definitely better to be up than it is to be down [in the polls]," adds a campaign aide. "We're almost there...
...part of a global economy that could be in for a rough patch, due to the subprime-credit crisis and the possibility of a recession in the U.S. A month ago, a relatively sophisticated investor such as Tian brushed aside any suggestion that U.S. markets, in turmoil since August, could effect equity values in China. "We're a separate market, a separate economy," Tian said on Nov. 5. Today, he concedes that the connection might be tighter than he imagined. "People are saying that if the U.S economy slumps it will hurt China - that is on the market's mind...
...same decision is uncertain. Chinese have few investment options - real estate markets are frothy in major cities and interest rates paid on bank deposits don't even keep up with the country's rising inflation rate. People were still pouring into the market a few months ago. In August, about 4 million new trading accounts were opened, but the numbers have been falling since, according to stock exchange officials in Shanghai...