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...Moore really wants to end the war? - and not just boost the spirits of his Upper West Side neighbors - then mightn't he also want to win over people who oppose the war and yet don't believe that Bush is an illegimate president swept into office by skullduggery? Is he so insulated that he doesn't realize people like that exist? Or are people like that simply not simon-pure enough for him to want them in his antiwar movement...
...economy it means the main prop beneath consumer spending for the past few years is as sturdy as ever. When homeowners lower their monthly interest expenses--in some cases even as they boost their debt through cash-out refinancings--they are able to keep spending. A new wave is already rising. The number of refis has surged in recent weeks, topping the weekly record of last fall...
...different times during the American Music Awards last year. Rappers like Bow Wow and Snoop Dogg followed, choosing royal blue 1960s L.A. Lakers duds for videos and concerts. Now Reuben Harley, 29, Mitchell & Ness's marketing director (and the man who met with Combs), says the jerseys have helped boost the company's annual sales to $25 million in 2002 from just $2.8 million in 2000. That makes Mitchell & Ness, formerly a little-known supplier of quaint 1930s-era wool baseball jerseys, the latest "urban gear" phenomenon. Other customers include Allen Iverson, the rapper Eve and a growing coterie...
...make patient care swifter and more customized--and safer, with mandatory bar-code scanning to cut the chance of a drug mix-up. Of course, the "paperless office" has been touted for years and has seldom materialized. But the hospital says its goals will be met if it can boost productivity...
...struggling to reverse huge losses in Investor's portfolio, whose net asset value per share almost halved last year as core holdings, including mobile-phone giant Ericsson and ABB, a Swedish-Swiss engineering firm, ran into serious trouble. The Wallenbergs' strategy: to use market weakness to boost their stakes in core holdings, among them bank SEB, Ericsson, ABB and appliance maker Electrolux. The Wallenbergs are making new investments in technology and have fostered a venture-capital arm. Those investments so far are losing money. But the young Wallenbergs hold to the motto used by their grandfather: "To move from...