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...Cook argued that customers flock to Apple simply for its products. He also credited Apple's snappy advertising campaign and seductive retail stores, where more than 400,000 people enter daily. He even gave a backhanded thanks to Microsoft, saying that the company's much maligned Vista operating system drove users to Apple. "I think it's fair to say that Vista hasn't lived up to everything Microsoft has said it would," Cook claimed. "And consequently it's opened doors for a lot of people to switch...
...example, stressed the collective package "isn't of an immediate miracle", and many more trials and jittery nerves would have to be overcome before the nightmare of the past months would be over. Still, the mere framework of a strategy proved sufficient to calm the fear that that drove last week's panic-driven sell...
...Republicans wouldn't allow me to tag along with their volunteers, so I drove 30 minutes across the county to the Obama field office. Where the Gainesville GOP office that opened last week was still furnished only with a few folding tables and chairs (workers were hanging the McCain/Palin sign out front as I drove away), Obama's in Woodbridge has been up and running since July, and has the dingy, cluttered, lived-in feel that every campaign office eventually acquires. The campaign's "Votebuilder" software - with house-by-house data on every registered voter in the area - dominated...
...price began rising during the past few years, governments and big oil companies plowed billions into exploring and developing new fields in Russia, Angola, Mexico, Brazil and Saudi Arabia - projects whose costs have more than doubled in the past few years, in part because soaring steel prices drove up drilling equipment costs and oil-rig rentals. Just as global demand has begun to slow, millions more barrels of oil a day from new fields have hit the world market...
Friday's international contagion of bearishness was inspired by Thursday's sell-off frenzy in New York City, which drove the Dow Jones index down 7% and neatly erased $872 billion of value from company and shareholder books. Fears that Wall Street would suffer another battering session Friday proved founded, as the Dow traded sharply down in the morning. Observers short on rational explanations for the nosedive could find solace only in the calendar: at least trading ceases on weekends...