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...bet he was thrilled with both. Yes, his party's florid assortment of wing nuts was outraged. But the President has been very clever about fertilizing the conservative hothouse in ways that do not reach the consciousness of the general public-and who else is Jerry Falwell going to vote for anyway? On the other hand, if the court had recriminalized sodomy or abolished affirmative action, the vast sensible center of American politics might have started drifting back toward the Democrats. The party's activists, especially minority groups, civil libertarians and the Hollywood faction, would have been re-energized...
...gambling man, I’d bet that he’ll be on that roster at the end of the day,” Koehler said...
...weeks begin to drift by, the vision comes into focus, and while my wallet has the extra punch of a Corporate American Express card, I won’t be running to Foxwoods to place a million pound bet in baccarat—instead, I’ll be buying books to train myself in computer software. My license to kill has not yet been issued, but my license to search through public SEC filings for corporate tax return data seemed to arrive on my first day. Instead of a military-issued pistol and silencer, I’m armed...
...Western Union has only one truly global competitor, which is stuck playing David to its Goliath. MoneyGram was founded in 1988, back when Western Union was spiraling toward bankruptcy. The industry leader had made a bad bet on its Telex division, which was obliterated by the sudden rise of the fax machine. But MoneyGram was dumped for antitrust reasons in 1996 after its parent company, First Data, picked up the much larger and better known Western Union, which had filed for Chapter...
...more pointed approach, lean toward top-performing small-cap growth funds like Buffalo Small Cap (up 9% a year the past three years) and Liberty Acorn USA (up 8% a year). They're more leveraged to a recovery--without which small stocks of any kind are a bad bet anyway...