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...This dark outlook augurs a U-shaped recession. The downturn, which began in the fourth quarter of 2007, will be longer than the usual 18 months. The recovery will probably be anemic and for the next few years the U.S. economy is likely to grow below potential. That's the best-case scenario. It suggests that we are many months, and perhaps thousands of Dow index points, from a market bottom...
...often the private labels don't look noticeably cheaper. Consider the sleek, dark 16.9-oz. bottle of Ariel Extra-Virgin Olive Oil for $4.29. (A 17-oz. bottle of Bertolli's extra-virgin costs $9.69.) "You wouldn't be embarrassed to have that on your counter," says Bill Bishop, a retail consultant...
...minutes before polls opened at 6:30 a.m., it was still pitch dark along Cleveland's streets and difficult to see the campaign signs or even the "Vote Here" ones. But those who always vote at St. Mary's Romanian Orthodox Church on Cleveland's far west side knew exactly where to go. By 6:20 a.m. the parking lot was filling up quickly and an almost all-white crowd of 30-some voters had formed. All across Cleveland, polls opened on time and short lines formed immediately...
...More colorfully, a pair of men dressed in the militant uniform of the Black Panthers - berets, dark shades, military-style jackets, pants and boots - appeared in front of a polling place in a predominantly black area of north Philadelphia around midday. One man was reportedly armed with a nightstick, but he was asked to leave by police, who had been summoned by a Republican poll watcher. By mid-afternoon, as media began to gather, one uniformed but unarmed man remained, handing out literature to voters, but he angrily refused to answer any questions. A credentialed Obama poll worker, who identified...
...Rally. On the eve of the election, over 100 people gathered on a busy street corner in Sacramento to scream opposing views at each other in a protest that spilled over from the weekend. And in Modesto, about a dozen men, women and children gathered after dark in the pouring rain to cheerfully wave yellow "Yes on 8" banners at cars entering the freeway. - By Kristin Kloberdanz / Modesto...