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...this, of course, happens to be the year that the economy figures to do the bulk of its sputtering. Bush, who rightly says he has "great faith in the economy" over the long haul, backloads the bulk of the benefits in the second five years of the plan - too late to blunt even an extended slowdown, and if he's making some Keynesian argument about cutting taxes in far-off times of plenty, he's not articulating it very well...
...matters: potential partners wonder whether a company as small as Opera can handle a client as big as Nokia. "Companies like Ericsson were naturally concerned about the size of the company and whether we would be able to handle problems," he says. As a result, Opera was forced to bulk up its administrative staff last year...
...even though the blame for the accident will be spread around, won't one person need to shoulder the bulk of the condemnation...
...Dupont thinks the steel industry is already more consolidated than the numbers indicate. "In financial circles they tend to toss up tonnage and look at what's left over and call that overcapacity," he says. "The amount of raw steel isn't really relevant to this discussion." The bulk of profits in the steel industry-when those profits materialize-isn't in the molten goo that comes out of furnaces. It's in the finishing process-when the goo is turned into billets (two tons that can be formed into beams or cables) or slabs (up to 50 tons that...
...best thing that can come out of this quake will be improved building codes. Moderate quakes test the building codes in the affected area - they can shake loose a few buildings that might have otherwise fallen down altogether in a larger earthquake. And buildings are what cause the bulk of earthquake damage; if a quake happened in the middle of a cowfield, there'd be no damage...