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Well, there's California's $38 billion deficit, the largest state shortfall in history, a number larger than the entire budget of all but one other state (New York). Much of the deficit is due to the collapse of the dot-com universe, which powered the state's economy in the '90s, and Davis can hardly be blamed for that. On the other hand, he was not exactly forthright about how large the deficit was going to be. In any case, Californians want a target for their fiscal pain and frustration, and Davis has become the state insignia for economic...
...George W. Bush last week called much of the debate ?revisionist,? but the President's critics aren't the only people who have been revising their stories. ?Other top Administration officials, like Chief of Staff Andy Card, say despite mistakes, connecting the dots pointed to a clear Iraq threat and possession of weapons of mass destruction. "Intelligence is not an exact science," says Card. "Some dots you collect may turn out not to be real; others turn out to be real dots." One bum dot that has come back to haunt the Administration: A line in the President's State...
...economy was running at full steam and phrases such as venture capital and dot-com were on the tip of everyone’s tongue...
Wright-Swadel notes that firms’ participation in the official OCS recruiting process was down 40 percent this year from the level three years ago. And some of the firms—particularly in the high-tech and dot-com sector—that were staples in the recruiting process several years ago no longer exist...
...default was that Harvard grads did consulting, I-banking, or dot-coms and if you didn’t do those things, you had failed,” Judith Palfrey says. “I don’t see that anymore—that’s good...