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...individual investors caught up in ongoing enthusiasm for all things Internet. Throw in the promise of continued interest rate hikes by Fed chairman Alan Greenspan and it adds up to a major correction waiting to happen. A correction is generally held to be a 10-percentage-point drop-off. At its low point Tuesday, the NASDAQ was off about 25 percent from its high...
...After all, in the early weeks of the 17,000-member strike, which began Feb. 9, Boeing seemed unwilling to budge. Management, in fact, was outwardly unfazed by the 50 percent drop-off in production that angered customers waiting for sorely needed new airplanes. But in this age of stock option-rich execs, it took little more than a nudge from Wall Street to force a deal. The crunch came earlier this week when analysts lowered their earnings forecasts for the firm, sending the stock to a 52-week low. A few years ago such a strike might not have...
...predict that the high oil prices alone could drive inflation in the U.S., it could certainly have an impact on consumer behavior - and thus potentially slow down the high-revving American economy. Auto industry analysts are already pointing to oil prices as a partial culprit in the recent drop-off of SUV sales...
...long, calm consideration of the upcoming campaign. According to a poll released Wednesday by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, voters today are less sure of who they'll vote for in November than they were three months ago. And while the drop-off in committed voters isn't great news for the candidates, it's not necessarily an indication of waning interest. On the contrary, says TIME Washington correspondent Karen Tumulty, this apparent indecisiveness could mean people are starting to take notice of the range of candidates. "Since November, both the Republican and Democratic...
...tough approach to battling poor performance - and arresting kids who play hooky. While the approach is too new to claim major academic victories, it is paying some early dividends. In L.A., for example, an ambitious two-year-old program to arrest truants has produced a 20 percent drop-off in daytime crime committed by high school-age kids...