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Preaching confidence may be a far more effective tonic for the economy than any piece of legislation. "Go out and tell the public to be optimistic, Mr. President," is how a participant summed up the advice business leaders dispensed at another recent White House session. That may explain why the President refuses to give up on trying to end the tax on dividends, the most politically unpopular element of his package. His advisers also believe that elimination of this so-called double taxation can provide a quick "optimism boost" to the stock markets. White House officials point to forecasts...
...commerce ace from consulting firm McKinsey. "The fundamental premise of hiring someone like me," says Rose, "is that this industry needs to be re-engineered." Since last summer, EMI has been holding weekly three-hour lunch meetings with artists, managers, agents and lawyers, a dozen at a time, to explain to them, as Rose puts it, "how the world needs to evolve...
...Amoy Gardens complex and the particularly aggressive spread of SARS in Toronto among health-care workers, however, scientists now speculate that there may be other mechanisms as well. In Amoy Gardens, for example, transmission may have occurred via contaminated fecal matter leaking from a broken sewage pipe. That would explain the lack of direct contact, as well as the fact that all these cases, unlike those in mainland China and Toronto, are characterized by severe diarrhea...
...also be that the microbe has mutated into several subtly different strains producing different symptoms. This might explain some of the perplexing transmission patterns seen on planes: people sitting next to SARS victims did not always get infected, while those across the aisle sometimes did. Perhaps the latter had used a lavatory immediately after an affected passenger...
...weeks ago, Bush tried to squeeze Ohio Senator George Voinovich, another clinging to that $350 billion number, by stumping for the plan in the Republican's state. Behind the scenes, officials from the Commerce and Treasury departments contacted businesses in the Buckeye state suggesting that they explain how much they would like the Senator to support the president. Administration aides boasted that the money men who support Voinovich were getting to him. They didn't get far. Now White House aides are saying they never thought they'd convince the first term Senator though others in the administration say they...