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...also look at GE, famous for its steadily rising earnings and steadily rising stock price. GE is an acquisitive conglomerate known for reporting one-time gains and one-time losses in striking balance, keeping growth on a calm and steady course. The company has also benefited from earnings that flow from its overfunded pension plan. Last year, with the broad stock market down 13%, GE reported a whopping $1.7 billion of income from pension-plan investments. How could that be? Here's one possibility cited by stock analysts: by raising the estimated rate of return on the money set aside...
...guess which portrait of al-Arian garnered more media attention after Sept. 11--or which finally got him fired from the University of South Florida in Tampa, despite his position as a tenured professor. The dismissal, which al-Arian said last month he will fight, adds the free flow of ideas in academia to the catalog of freedoms that civil libertarians say is at stake in post-Sept. 11 America. "If this [firing] happens," says al-Arian, 44, "then every single tenured professor across the country could be terminated, especially Arabs...
...even though the terrible price of prostitution has become evident by the sheer force of numbers, the flow of girls has not slowed. The economic imperative is such that for most families, sending daughters illegally to Thailand is a must, says Cherry Waing of World Vision's Kentung office. And with no education or training, girls have little earning power outside the flesh trade. "Every village has a broker for sex workers," says Waing...
...playing with a very good tempo going into the finals break, but when you sit for 10 days while other teams are playing, it’s tough,” Mazzoleni said. “We don’t have the same energy, execution, focus, rhythm and flow that we did before finals. We were flat-footed...
...officials put the death toll at about 50, as displaced people lined roads into Rwanda and gathered in the town of Gisenyi. As the 3,469-m volcano continued to spew molten rock, earthquakes shook the area and a cloud of smoke hung in the air. The lava flow ended in Lake Kivu, on the border...