Word: fear
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...front papyrus) in the past. One reason for this is that the concept of ownership of intellectual property is only a few hundred years old. The other is that the real author of pious art - whether literary or artistic - used to be considered to be God, who may require fear, awe or compassion, but not royalties...
...Positive; out July 15 These rock jams about aging hipsters from a band of aging hipsters are cut-rate Springsteen, right down to Craig Finn's croaky vocals and keyboard-riff rapture. But suckers for the veneration of things white people like (water towers, daddy issues, Joe Strummer) and fear (aging, townies, not being cool) will undoubtedly be charmed...
...know gas is expensive when the Florida Lottery starts doling out prizes in the form of gas cards. But here's another sign of the times: fear of thieves siphoning fuel has led to a surge in the sale of locking gas caps. Stant Manufacturing, a leading gas-cap maker, has already sold more locking caps in the first six months of this year--some 1.3 million--than in all of 2007. Yes, these locks can be jimmied, but New York City locksmith Frank Persico thinks they're still worth it. "You have to put time and effort into actually...
...investments--can't be stopped entirely. It shouldn't be stopped, and going forward, a major priority for regulators will be averting such lending binges--as new, tougher mortgage rules from the Federal Reserve aim to do. But at the same time, many on Wall Street and in Washington fear that the correction could careen into an economic cataclysm. That's why the Fed has intervened at the top of the financial food chain by cutting interest rates and bankrolling a shotgun takeover of the investment bank Bear Stearns. And it's why there's been lots of talk...
About 3 million homeowners will default this year on their mortgages (the first step in the foreclosure process), forecasts Moody's Economy.com That's double last year's number and amounts to 6% of all U.S. mortgages. The fear is that mass foreclosures could accelerate price declines, bringing on a cascade of additional foreclosures and economic trouble in their wake. "I get this sense in an increasing number of markets around the country that this death spiral is developing," says Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody's Economy.com and an outspoken advocate of doing more to combat foreclosures...