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...trend in which grunge-ish bands crank up the elastic disco bass and coax fans to dance is rock's most pleasant development since Creed broke up. This bouncy tune about a woman with "a million ways to be cruel" is the catchy song of the summer...
America's Founding Fathers spent nearly four months hashing out a constitution. Iraq's drafting committee has been trying to crank one out in half that time. With an Aug. 1 deadline rapidly approaching, the chief sticking point appears to be how the government can avoid another Saddam-like concentration of power. Both the Shi'ites and the Kurds are pushing for varying degrees of federalism, and the U.S. is supporting the plan. The Kurds have long sought a large degree of autonomy for their region in the north. The Shi'ites too are now calling for an autonomous region...
...People are always surprised to learn that we still make anything here in the U.S.," says Springs Industries CEO Crandall Bowles. The largest home-furnishings company in North America, Springs and its 14,000 employees crank out bedding and bath products, rugs and window coverings in 30 manufacturing facilities in 13 states, Canada and Mexico. Its brand names and licenses--including Wamsutta, Springmaid, Ultrasuede, Kate Spade and NASCAR--produce annual revenues of $3 billion. Springs is proof positive that U.S. textile manufacturing is very much alive. But it would be a stretch to say it's well. According...
...machine first started to crank up in 1982, when oil prices began to fall. Cheaper energy helped pop the inflation bubble, which in turn enabled Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker and his counterparts in other countries to let interest rates decline. That development sparked a long-running bull market on stock exchanges from Wall Street to Tokyo. And when oil prices went into a steep decline over the past three months, the boom machine shifted into high gear. Says James Sweeney, director of the Center for Economic Policy Research at Stanford University: "We see a significant number of happy events...
...required for conventional mortgages. The no-money-down advocates tell their students to look for so-called motivated sellers, people who are so desperate to unload their property that they will go along with a highly leveraged financing deal. One such scheme is what Allen calls the Second Mortgage Crank, in which the buyer of a $100,000 house persuades the seller to take out a new bank mortgage of $75,000. The no-money-down buyer then assumes that mortgage and gives the seller an installment IOU for the remaining $25,000. Persuading sellers to accept this kind...