Word: fall
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...exactly agriculture, but the drought currently affecting the eastern United States and parts of the Midwest appars to be having a devastating effect on another rural crop: fall foliage. The lack of moisture has caused trees in New England and beyond to dry up and turn brown ahead of schedule. This has local businesses worried that the lack of foliage could cause tourists to make like a tree and, well, not show up at all those cute bed-and-breakfasts. And that could shave a considerable chunk of the estimated $8 billion that leaf-peepers pump into the regional economy...
...their state as hard, especially in the northern half. Meanwhile, Rhode Island, suffering through its worst summer for rain in recorded history, has given up on promoting leaves and instead would like you to know that there are plenty of other pleasant things to do in the Ocean State. Fall branch tour, anyone...
...unusual for the market to fall in love with a stock, seduce it and then abandon it. What is unusual is for this to happen faster than a college tryst. For TheStreet.com where I am the largest shareholder and a writer and director, the impact of the decline was more subtle than the fall was jolting. Right out of the box, investors gave us a big market cap--in essence, a club to beat up or buy up competitors. But then they took the club away before we could start swinging. We were looking brash and predator-like...
...ideas. "He said he's in favor of insuring 'as many Americans as possible.' What does that mean?" asks activist Pia Davis. "He wants Gore to get Clinton to sign an order banning racial profiling. Why should Gore have to do something now, when Bradley gets to wait until fall to tell us what he's going...
SHARP AND STYLISH For years, digital camera owners have lived like second-class citizens, settling for grainy pics while they waited for prices to fall on high-res models. The wait paid off this spring, when Ricoh, Sony and others introduced the first sub-$1,000, 2-megapixel cameras with near film quality. Now Yashica is improving on the standard with its Samurai 2100DG, which boasts the first 4X optical zoom for sharper pics, and a one-hand design to help eliminate blurring caused by accidental shaking of the camera. Due out Aug. 20, the Samurai weighs...