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...longest strike in Hollywood history, over pay for commercials. And already the Screen Actors Guild, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and the Writers Guild of America are causing panic by threatening strikes against networks and studios next year, primarily over residuals from cable (which has boomed in the last few years) and Internet outlets (which might boom some...
There are too many schools in America where the playgrounds in which kids used to play are now covered with trailers because of the overcrowding. The current generation of schoolchildren has surpassed the baby boom as the largest generation in U.S. history. Gore is a leader, and he has a bold, visionary plan to provide this new generation with the best education in the world. Bush does...
...year for the Street. And everybody - maybe even the voters - will be a little on edge until this whole election thing blows over. Wall Street, more than ever, is confused about this election. Gore is attracting support unusual for a Democrat as the techie representing the eight-year economic boom, while Bush's tax cut worries some investors who fear for the government's fiscal discipline. Yet Bush is still the pro-Big Business, anti-Big Government Republican in this traditionally GOP enclave, and he also happens to be Microsoft's best hope...
...Will oil prices, which can act like a tax and dampen consumer spending, continue to do the Fed's soft-landing work for it? Or will they smother the boom? Will corporate earnings pick up? Will the euro ever recover? As the Fed chairman made clear with those ever-so-slightly-hawkish comments about energy prices, Uncle Alan may be on the sidelines - but he's watching. And he'll see us in December...
...Older than the Lunch-Pail Dads--over-50, white workingmen without a college degree. They feel left out of the economic boom and threatened by G.O.P. plans to privatize Social Security. They started out in Bush's camp, but many are tilting to Gore, drawn by his people-vs.-the-powerful pitch and worried that Bush's tax cut could put the economy off kilter just as they have begun to dream of retirement. Bush could win them back if he convinces them he is an equally responsible caretaker of the economy...