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...American consumers the most - but the cost of an entire range of commodities has also plunged in the past quarter: copper, gold, nickel and steel have all fallen as global demand has weakened. One popular gauge of commodity prices, the Reuters CRB Index, tumbled 22.3% in October, the biggest drop in the index's 48-year history. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...order of the day. Rarely have investors been so prone to bouts of panic selling, punctuated by spasms of equally frenzied buying. The Dow Jones Industrial Average index lost nearly a quarter of its value between Oct. 1 and Oct. 27, including an epic 700-point drop on Oct. 15. The carnage was followed on Oct. 28 by a 900-point rise, the second largest points gain on record...
...Malcolm R. Rivers ’09 said, scooping up one of his friends, who laughed and tried not to drop her plate of food...
...bags. Some cable [channel] got it. Jimmy was three weeks out from shipping out overseas. We get through the speech, and you have pretty much the senior class of the Washington press corps all lined up. You know they all came to see if he was going to drop dead. He didn't bitch, he didn't moan. There were no recriminations. There was nothing except a mental and emotional confidence--this is what I set out to do, and I will do this, and if I fail I fail, but no one will tell me I failed until...
...though Spain is an especially easy country in which to gain asylum," says Alfredo Abad, director of the Spanish Refugee Aid Commission. "We have some of the lowest acceptance rates in Europe." In fact, only 570 of the 7,664 who sought asylum in 2007 were granted, a drop in acceptance, says Abad, of 58% compared to the previous year...