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...there are 140 large U.S. companies on its "Weakest Links" list of low quality debtors - the group "most vulnerable to default." That's up nearly twofold from the beginning of this year. Among the troubled firms on the agency's list are such household names as clothing retailer Eddie Bauer, amusement park operator Six Flags and pizza chain Sbarro. Also on the list are doughnut baker Krispy Kreme and mobile technology titan Palm, as well as a number of the nation's largest airlines, including JetBlue and the corporate parents of United and American...
...recently as the first quarter of this year had served as the motor of Europe, thanks to its surging sales of machinery and other capital goods to places like China, Russia and the Middle East. In the last few days, companies ranging from motor manufacturer Deutz to Koenig & Bauer, which makes printing machines, have cut sales projections and warned about weak orders. "It's a double whammy," says Dino Sola, a finance professor at the University of Monaco. "First the credit crunch gets out of control and then, when we get our act together, we realize that...
...building was to reflect the occupants,” explains Hartman. “The people that pass through it would begin to claim the building in a way.”Inside the laboratories, attention to the needs of the scientists and students prevails. D. Allan Drummond, a Bauer Fellow working in the building, says, “The new lab space is gorgeous.”Drummond explains that the new facilities are a significant improvement as they shed an old, peripatetic quality. “The previous labs were designed to be rapidly shifted; they were meant...
...Hollywood is reflecting our other institutions, which haven't quite figured out China either. Is it a rival? A partner? A repressive authoritarian state? An engine of prosperity? A sinister force that tortured Jack Bauer? Or a delightful panda that likes to gobble dumplings? We know that China matters and will matter more. But we don't exactly know how. So it floats undefined, a Middle Kingdom poised between fascination and fear. Kids collect Master Shifu Happy Meal toys at McDonald's while parents worry that they may end up flipping burgers there if their jobs go to China. Meanwhile...
...tired of seeing Christians back down in fear of a lawsuit.' ANDRE BAUER, lieutenant governor of South Carolina, on concerns that federal courts will stop the state's plan to issue the country's first-ever Christian license plates...