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...interviews were conducted via telephone by Opinion Research Corp. Sept. 7-9, 2008. The Michigan, Missouri and Virginia surveys have an error margin of 3 percentage points, while New Hampshire's is 3.5 percentage points...
Much bigger deals are in the works, and the competition will be fierce. Among the leading contenders: Lockheed Martin, Accenture and Computer Sciences Corp. By Dec. 31, CBP is required by law to fingerprint all visitors with visas at the 50 busiest land crossings along the Canadian and Mexican borders. The remaining 100 or so land-crossing points must be covered by the end of 2005. This year the State Department's 211 consular offices must be able to fingerprint all visa applicants and embed all U.S. visas with a bar code containing the traveler's digitized print, photo...
...banks and thrifts, there are well-defined procedures for dealing with insolvencies through the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. But much of the financial action in recent years has moved to companies for which there is no such shutdown plan. When Wall Street firm and major mortgage player Bear Stearns experienced something akin to a bank run in March, the solution that Paulson and Bernanke came up with was a hastily arranged sale to JPMorgan Chase & Co., backed by a $29 billion guarantee from the Fed. The Fed is responsible for keeping prices stable and credit flowing. Bailing out troubled lenders...
...would ''be accepted as an indication of no objection.'' To many companies, the letter was a veiled threat of public censure and even criminal prosecution against companies that sell ''adult'' publications. At least six retail chains that received the letter, with 8,632 outlets nationwide--most notably the Southland Corp., owner of 7-Eleven convenience stores--have stopped selling Playboy and Penthouse. Playboy, along with the Magazine Publishers Association and other groups, is suing the commission to retract the letter and issue a statement explaining its intentions. They charged that the letter has touched off a ''blaze of censorship across...
...country. Compucorp, a California-based information-services company, is able to hire Irish programmers and computer engineers for about one-third the $50,000 annual salary that they would command in the U.S. The company now employs 66 people in Ireland. Irwin Cohen, president of Virginia- based ILM Corp., a data-processing firm, points out that ILM's Jamaican subsidiary was founded in 1964 to meet a shortage of American computer operators. Now, he says, operating in Jamaica is ''very similar to operating in a small U.S. town.'' Very similar, but not the same...