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...long as it?s made in America by expensive union labor. The service sector is America?s future - maybe the place to put this is an extravagant dinner for two, or a cheap Yankees season-ticket package. Or maybe support financial services, manufacturing and tech all at once, and blow it all on 50 shares of Lucent. (At least I won?t have to worry about capital-gains taxes for a few years, if ever...
...More ? So the party runs a risk. When Jiang climbed the rostrum over Tiananmen Square for his maestro performance, he forever linked his party with the Olympics. The flip side of that joyous celebration in the capital last week is that Chinese could blame their leaders if they blow the Games. That has raised expectations that the government may modify its behavior to ensure success?and its own survival...
...Greenspan answered no - swings between optimism and pessimism were part of human nature - and Sarbanes wanted to know whether the "no" was for the business cycle or the booms and busts. In other words, didn't the Fed actually blow it by letting the speculative fever run too hot, and did it then act too harshly to cool it off, and then did it really blow it by not stepping back in to ease earlier...
...much use to other prosecutors and is, in any case, a weapon against intentional dereliction, not a "financial litmus test" for parenthood. "What it really means," he says, is "if you have a kid, you have to pay support to your best ability and not just blow...
...Chief economic adviser Larry Lindsey says he's buying bikes for his kids. Karl Rove will blow it on school clothes, home furnishings "and something for Daisy, the dog." Budget director Mitch Daniels will give it to his daughter to save - "but she may find a way to spend it," he says hopefully. Multimillionaire Donald Rumsfeld is opting for services - he says he'll use it to pay his accountant. And Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, who's signing the checks, is giving it to charity...