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With oil bumping pushing past $120 a barrel, you can bet you could hear a pin drop in the room. But what exactly was he talking about? Iraqi Shi'a militias invading Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, burning their oil fields, driving the price of gasoline up to $10 a gallon and us into a depression? Crocker wouldn't elaborate on his vague warnings, preferring to leave it at a sense of dread...
...prospect of crowds overflowing into their own stores. “It’ll probably bring people from out of the neighborhood,” said Colin G. Quinn, of Best Cellars wine shop, which is one block away. Likewise, Lisa D. Boch, a sales associate at Crate & Barrel, said she thought the Apple Store will be good for business. “It’ll be so great for the city,” she said. “[Apple customers] are like our customers: modern and trendy.” The store has been the subject...
...recent weeks, Clinton has upped her populist message to drive this point home. She speaks out against the oil companies and countries that "have us over the barrel," and promises to challenge the market manipulation of OPEC. She chastises "Wall Street money brokers" and speaks of China like it was a malicious power, exporting "contaminated food, lead laced toys and polluted pharmaceuticals...
...heart of that growth for both companies were bumper profits from exploration and production units. Those at Shell's climbed 52% to more than $5 billion, and BP's did even better. But given the surging price of a barrel of oil, both businesses must share the plaudits with the markets. A spiraling dollar and jitters over supply have helped drive oil prices up almost a quarter this year, reaching a fresh record of almost $120 on Monday. An end Tuesday to the two-day strike over pensions by refinery workers in Scotland - which had earlier halted much...
...himself. He was against the Bush tax cuts before he was for them. He has now proposed a new and costly round of corporate tax breaks - and a summer gasoline-tax holiday that is just the sort of flummery he has traditionally opposed. McCain's insistence on cutting pork-barrel projects from the federal budget is worthy but not very significant - the narcissism of small deductions. He would be better served by announcing his intention to kill some of the more foolish Pentagon weapons systems, as he has in the past...