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...contributes $130 billion to GDP, roughly 1% of the national total, according to Economy.com Risk Management Solutions, a leading risk-assessment firm based in Newark, Calif., estimates that damages will run up to $100 billion. Insurance companies are on the hook for some $25 billion. Our guide to the fallout...
...groups they need to hold in those seats they claim by the narrowest of margins. The major reforms to superannuation will make Baby Boomers more relaxed about retirement; it may keep some of them, and the next generation, in work a few years longer to lessen the economic fallout of an ageing population...
...Swanson's tale to this year's ledger of fakery and its fallout. RadioShack CEO David Edmondson resigned over a tarted-up résumé. Harvard sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan has been roasted for her cribbed chick-lit novel. But Raytheon is a major government contractor that sells missiles, not stereos, and Swanson is a big boss, not a teenage undergrad. Still, he insists it all began with an innocent mix-up. Swanson asked staff members to compile a presentation from materials he kept in a file. It was such a hit that he and his staff collected 33 "rules...
...fallout from gasoline prices was doubly painful for the G.O.P. because it obliterated the good news that the economy is absolutely cranking. Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke estimated that the economy grew nearly 5% in the first quarter, while unemployment has fallen to 4.7%, the lowest since 2001. But the price of gas isn't a mere macroeconomic figure. It's a pocketbook item that consumers feel every week. The economy required about 27% less energy to produce a dollar of GDP last year than it did in 1986, according to the Department of Energy. But gas prices are hurting...
...hurt us." But when the last of 102 mushroom clouds rose above the desert in 1962, Sheldon Nisson was dead from leukemia. His cancer, along with that of nine other victims, Federal District Court Judge Bruce Jenkins ruled last week, resulted from exposure to those drifting clouds of radioactive fallout. The judge found that area residents had not been given sufficient warning about the dangers of radiation and ordered the Government to pay $2.66 million to the afflicted families...