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...taken a while for the blow to sink in. a market crash doesn't always come in a day. It can sneak up, slow and surreal, and you can think you survived it only to find it has barely begun. Now each week brings a new shudder and crack--first Enron and Arthur Anderson, then WorldCom, Adelphia, Xerox and the trials of Martha Stewart. Most Americans--72% in the TIME/CNN POLL--fear that they see not a few isolated cases but a pattern of deception by a large number of companies. In one survey, more than half of corporate chief...
...decision to halt a study of hormone-replacement therapy because of an increased risk of cancer came as a blow to millions of women. But the potential dangers of hormones were well known when TIME ran a cover story on ESTROGEN...
...were tracking them," said Colonel Roger King, a Pentagon spokesman at Bagram air base, north of Kabul. So the gunship--a flying arsenal loaded with machine guns and a 105-mm howitzer--fired on the compound. Subsequent comments by U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld did little to soften the blow. "There cannot be the use of that kind of firepower and not have mistakes," he said. "It is going to happen...
...Watts, the only black Republican in Congress, announced last week that he will retire when his fourth term ends next year--a blow to the G.O.P.'s efforts to widen its appeal. The conservative 44-year-old Oklahoman and former star quarterback for the University of Oklahoma talks with TIME's Douglas Waller...
SOHN: Americans took out about $70 billion to $80 billion of their home equity. Did they blow it? I don't think so. The surveys show that the money went first to home remodeling, then to debt consolidation, investments in stocks and bonds, and consumption like buying a car or taking a vacation. It was used responsibly, boosting economic growth...