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...Soviets then put the first man into space, Yuri Gagarin, just after Kennedy had taken office. When the news broke, the President was getting ready to throw out the first baseball of the season and eat a hot dog. How American. How embarrassing...
STEIN: A dividend obviously is more attractive in view of the President's plan. But the tail shouldn't wag the dog. First are the fundamentals of the company. We like energy: Exxon Mobil, Chevron Texaco [4.4%] and ConocoPhillips [3.5%]. They have strong balance sheets and have increased their dividends. We are also looking at health care, including Pfizer [2%]. In the consumer area, companies with reasonable valuations include ConAgra...
...Dog is man's best friend until it comes time to take the family on a vacation. That's when you have to either limit your travels to places that accept canines or pack Fido off to a kennel or dog-sitter until the party is over...
...these are dog days for hotelkeepers, and as lodgings compete with one another for the family business, a growing number are making an effort to be more dog friendly. The American Hotel and Motel Association estimates that more than 20,000 U.S. lodgings now accept pets--some of them in great style...
...Unless Germany reforms its economy, the country risks falling into a Japanese-style slump of little or no growth and a downward spiral of deflation. An early casualty of this forced coalition will be Schröder's proposed new taxes - including increased levies on company cars and dog food - designed to help close an j18 billion budget deficit. "Most of these taxes are now dead," says Holger Schmieding, European economist at the Bank of America, since the CDU campaigned hard on its opposition to Schröder's tax plans. Although the lack of new taxes will make...