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Stung by a jobless recovery on the heels of the first recession in a decade and by a 2 1/2-year slide in stock prices that on Friday left the market at a five-year low, Americans are more worried about their financial future than at any other time since the turbulent '70s. They flocked to stocks in the roaring 1990s, only to see $7.7 trillion of paper wealth incinerated. If the scandal and collapse at Enron had been isolated, the nation's deflated sense of opportunity might have been repaired by now. Instead, the lid has been lifted on bogus...
...Adelphia scalps gave the Administration a chance to look as if it was taking charge amid the dreadful financial news. Through much of July, as toxic stock syndrome plunged the market to five-year lows and nudged his poll numbers to mortal levels, the President and his top economic advisers appeared helpless and sometimes befuddled. Wall Street was not impressed. As a private equities fund manager told Time, "It doesn't seem like his top priority. It doesn't seem like he understands. It doesn't seem like they have their act together." Each time Bush gave a speech promising...
...Blakey steps into big shoes: Garvey, who is not only the first woman ever to run the FAA but also the first to fill the post for its new, five-year term, has done an exceptional job in working with the airlines and the general aviation community on safety and technological innovation. She also brought organization and analysis to the FAA that allows the agency to spot potential problems before they develop into safety issues. Garvey has also kept a lid on the sometimes petty requests that come from Capitol Hill and she's even transformed some Congressmen into actual...
...going back to bonds and non-equity funds," he says, "where I don't have to log onto the Internet six times a day to see my returns." De Jonge isn't the only one looking for the exit. London's FTSE 100 touched a five-year low last week, and so far in 2002 the blue-chip European companies that make up the Dow Jones Stoxx 50 index have declined 24%. That bonfire of capital has been fueled only in part by the revelations of corporate sleaze on the other side of the Atlantic. "Even if Europe hasn...
...parcel of land at 18 Sumner Rd. for a neighborhood park. Harvard also promised to forbid the use of CGIS for summer school and extension school classes for five years, and agreed to a decade-long moratorium on future construction for the Foxcroft-Bromley Court block, as well as five-year moratoria on the Gund Hall and Sackler Museum blocks...