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...Lewinsky mess--a few of the President's advisers liked to play a little game. They would sort Clinton's best deeds and worst misdeeds into what they called "legacy items," then try to project how history would rank each entry. Balancing the budget, presiding over the economic boom, reforming welfare, cutting crime, dragging his party to the center and preparing his people for the new century--these were seen as Clinton's key legacy items. And what of his scandal sheet, which even then was voluminous? "Our hope is that we can accomplish enough in the second term...
...Baby Bell companies. But in recent years that monopoly has slipped away. And in the eyes of traditional telecom bosses, the antidote is conglomeration, a kind of circle-the-wagons strategy they hope can hold off competition's inevitable charge. The approach has roots in an earlier boom time. In the 1920s the nation's railroad firms consolidated in a vain attempt to stave off competition from cars. The phone companies--which think a large customer base will make it cheaper to develop and sell new services--believe this time will be different...
...error occurred while processing this directive] Decline it has. At Tuesday's nadir, the Dow had lost 762.87 points from its record high of 9,337.97 on July 17. And although the indicator is still up 8.4 percent on the year, that figure was once 18 percent. Is the boom of the Clinton years finally over? Kadlec says that with so many people with money in the stock market, recession worries could be self-fulfilling. "The effects of Asia are hitting U.S. companies hard, but consumers at home are still spending," he says. "But if the stock market stays gloomy...
Outside DeLay's office, Justin Brown worked at the little gift shop right off the Crypt. "The first thing I heard was a big boom," he says. "I looked to my right. I saw a guy with a gun. The first thing I thought was 'Duck!'" Brown says more shots were fired in a matter of seconds. "It was like a running gunfight." He saw the flash of a gun, then saw Chestnut on the ground bleeding heavily. "Officer down!" someone shouted. Angela Dickerson, a 24-year-old tourist from Virginia, was wounded in the face and shoulder...
...Moines has both urban and rural within minutes of each other, says Jeff Bradford, chairman of the marketing department at Drake University in Des Moines, and that's attractive to companies that want products tested. With its housing and development boom, Des Moines "captures the growth and the shift in the economy that's taking place across the entire country," Bradford says...