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...last 15 minutes stretched into an hour and a half. With his dogs wandering the cabin and White House chief of staff Andrew Card taking notes, Bush listened as his visitors explained how Americans beyond the capital were digesting the events in Iraq. They talked, recalled Representative Joe Barton, a Republican from Texas, about "how it's very easy to get support for a pure military operation, but it's a lot more difficult when you're peacekeeping and rooting out the terrorists." This seemed to confirm what the President had privately been telling his staff for days...
...Barton Biggs, chief global strategist at Morgan Stanley, says he sees too much gloom and doom even among professional investors. He expects consumer cyclical stocks to do well in the U.S. and Asia. Among stocks that Morgan Stanley has lately favored are U.S. consumer cyclicals Best Buy and Home Depot. The firm also likes techs, including Microsoft and Applied Materials, and industrials--Lockheed Martin, CSX--as a play on U.S. growth...
Even when Professor W. Barton “Pappy” Leach only allowed female students to speak on designated “ladies days”—when questioning generally related to cases involving underwear—few protested...
Meanwhile, the global economy should start to perk up now that companies around the world have used three lean years to shed fat and restructure. Foreign stocks were hit harder and are cheaper relative to earnings potential than stocks in the U.S. "The U.S. has to turn first," says Barton Biggs, chief global strategist at Morgan Stanley, because it remains the world's leading economy. "But then Europe and Asia will move further, faster," he predicts. His favorite regions are parts of Europe--notably Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands--Hong Kong and South Korea, and emerging markets Thailand, Malaysia...
...Barton was working for Microsoft in 1994 when he started what has become the Web's biggest travel agency. The site is battling, in the marketplace and among regulators, against Orbitz, which is owned by a group of major airlines. And so far Expedia has outhustled the newcomer, mainly by vastly improving its profit margins on hotel bookings. It also inked a deal with Ticketmaster and bought a custom-vacation wholesaler as well as an off-line business-travel agency. Already the top site in Britain and France, Expedia says it will invade Asia next year. --By Julie Rawe. With...