Word: drops
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...huge stock-market losses on Thursday - a 7.3% drop in the Dow Industrials, a 7.6% decline in the S&P 500 - were just the latest in a string of traumas for investors already afraid to open brokerage statements or turn on cable TV for fear of what the news might bring. It was the seventh straight day of declines for the Dow, driving the group of blue-chip stocks below 8,600, a level not broached in five years. Since the market's high - ironically enough, exactly a year ago - the Dow has shed nearly...
There are good reasons for that. The U.S. is by far the largest economy in the world, more than three times bigger than no. 2, Japan. And with annual imports of more than $2 trillion, it is the world's shop-till-you-drop economic engine. If that engine stutters, the others grind to a halt. This is an old tale, but with a new twist to sober the Schadenfreudians: Europe's bankers and mortgage providers have been just as stupid and greedy as their American comrades-in-harm - and this in countries that pride themselves on having tamed...
...impossible to say whether SNL drove the drop in Palin's public approval or simply followed it--whether it was the chicken or the egg-throwing. After all, Real Palin really sat down with Real Couric and gave a Really Bad Interview. That still counts for something, right...
...that voters thought they were the victors. McCain isn't the only Republican whose election prospects are in peril. With the economy in shreds and wrong-track numbers rising, GOP strategists fear a possible election wipeout. Democrats, with more money and a powerful voter-turnout operation, have begun to drop their poker faces...
...breathe; two, you can move. That’s all I really ask from a pair of pants. Now, let me clarify that these aren’t the days of JNCOs—days when we pre-teen girls would do anything to have a drop of Backstreet Boy sweat fall on us at a concert, when we wore baggy jeans, belly-baring t-shirts, and had Tamogatchis hanging from our pockets. Wide-leg trousers have been walking down runways for years, but only recently have a sizeable number of ready-wear models been showing up in stores. When...