Word: corps
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...largely as a result of the Federal Reserve Board's "assault on the equity markets" through interest-rate hikes. And since May, the message of the markets has been that economists "were essentially wrong" in forecasting a third-quarter recovery, says Hugh Johnson, chief investment strategist at First Albany Corp. The terror attacks of Sept. 11, our panelists agree, will trigger at least two quarters of economic decline--the classic definition of recession. "It's hard to scare American consumers out of spending, but this event did it," says Diane Swonk, chief economist at Bank One. Adds Mark Zandi, chief...
...Drop in stock value last Monday of UAL Corp., the parent company of United Airlines...
...year's Super Bowl in Tampa, Fla., law-enforcement officials secretly scanned spectators' faces with surveillance cameras and instantly matched their faceprints against photographs of suspected terrorists and known criminals in computerized databases. Facial-recognition technology might help, says Bruce Hoffman, vice president for external affairs at the Rand Corp. and a former adviser to the National Commission on Terrorism, but mostly after the fact, during an investigation. And that means storing all the face data collected, something civil libertarians fear will allow the government to track any individual. If systems were set up all over a city, you could...
...Experts in antiterrorism share their concern. At the turn of the past century, says Brian Jenkins of the Rand Corp., epidemics of diseases like yellow fever and cholera kept health workers on their toes. Now, after a decade of cutbacks, "our ability to treat large numbers of casualties has been reduced," he says. "The notion of reinvesting to create a muscular public health system is not a bad idea, even if there is no terrorism...
After holding off selling firearms on Tuesday, Kmart Corp. resumed sales the Wednesday, so Americans could get their rifles after about