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Wall Street, by contrast, showed little concern over Apple's dire predicament, bumping the company's stock up by more than half in the days following Jobs' canny capitulation. What change in Apple's circumstances justified this startling re-evaluation? Besides buying stock, Microsoft propped up the tottering Macintosh platform by pledging three years' worth of Mac versions of its office software and cooperation with Apple on upcoming products. Apple's richest boon, though, may be psychological; by promising to publish Mac software into the next century, Microsoft lets Mac customers and developers alike trust the platform to exist that...
...power to modify cigarettes in this fashion over time--without the industry's fighting it tooth and claw or the need for congressional blessing of each new round of mandated yield reductions. Of vital importance as well, the FDA would be similarly empowered to require far more conspicuous and dire health warnings on every cigarette pack and full disclosure of its harmful ingredients...
...next five years to help reduce carbon dioxide emissions. No better than "using a squirt gun to quell a raging fire," snipped Sierra Club President Adam Werbach. "With the whole world watching, the president of the world's biggest polluter needs to do more than warn of the dire consequences of global warming." Even though the President did promise to come up with a "realistic" U.S. plan to slash emissions before December talks in Kyoto, Japan on a global warming treaty, environmentalists aren't holding their breath. While smog and soot are everyday problems American voters can easily relate...
...seize the rewards available to capitalist elites, not that they are responsible for identifying American dilemmas and agitating to solve them. One of the few voices of dissent at the College is Professor Cornel West, who writes that America is currently a "twilight civilization" that is in dire need of fundamental re-evaluation...
...situation became so dire that Professor of Classics and History Christopher P. Jones felt obliged to interrupt the normal repose of a November Faculty meeting to protest the problems...