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...Given all that, what do WSL's consumer psyche measures say about the fate of the recession? "We see it more as the end of the beginning," says Liebmann. "There's a very big cloud still over the consumer. We've been through the first phase, and we hope the worst has happened. Shoppers are feeling a little bit chipper, but there's still more to go." Sure, additional economic tumult may be coming. But at least we can enjoy a little calm...
...type of program we need is freely available online (from e-mail to PowerPoint knockoffs), why pay for expensive computers that run expensive software programs? Better yet, when you create a document using one of these free services, you can't lose it; the document lives up in the "cloud," on a server, there whenever you want...
...dark cloud over regional banks is bad news for the FDIC, which provides deposit insurance, now to the level of $250,000 per account, at banks across the nation. At the end of last year, the FDIC had only $19 billion left to cover future failures. That's the lowest the FDIC's insurance fund has been in more than 15 years. As a result, on Friday the FDIC decided to raise the fee it charges large banks for deposit insurance. Also, President Obama recently agreed to allow the FDIC to borrow as much as $100 billion, up from...
...form, its order. There is a simple pleasure in pure appreciation without any justification—what Susan Sontag called the “erotics of art” in her “Against Interpretation”—but this too is part of the cloud of values and its modes of looking and observation...
...First and foremost are the labels, which cloud the issue by oversimplifying it - that's why the advocates picked them. Most people are neither pro-choice nor pro-life, but both; we cherish life, we value choice, and we trade them off with great reluctance. Good luck explaining that to someone who is politely requesting a binary answer over the phone. (See more about abortion...