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...Democratic presidential candidate has carried Virginia since 1964, and most election years both campaigns pretty much ignore the state. This time, however, McCain is running behind Barack Obama in statewide polls, thanks in large part to the head start he got on the ground there. "We haven't seen a race like this in Virginia - ever," said state GOP Chairman Jeffrey M. Frederick. "The last time was 40 years ago, and they didn't run races like this...
helping the CRI project to get off the ground, Parker said. CRI was initially based at the Weld Boathouse and used University equipment...
...airline hub, has been approved for expansion, which will increase its yearly flight capacity by nearly 10%, from 241,000 flights to 264,000 flights. The airport, located 45 minutes from London by express train, currently has one runway; plans to build a second one may get off the ground as early as 2009. (Also, in a few months, the U.K. government will determine whether Heathrow gets a third runway...
...fear to a bad situation in a way guaranteed to make it far worse," says Marc Touati, deputy executive manager of the French economic- and finance-research group Global Equities. "We once had 'irrational exuberance' pushing markets ever higher; now we have irrational pessimism running them into the ground. People have to calm down, or we're in for big trouble...
...prices and a falling euro, for instance, would have been considered generally good developments only a few months ago. Yet markets are so spooked that they're driving indexes into the ground and thereby increasing the chance of general economic contamination. "We're back to the most basic behavior of stock markets: people buy when they see everyone else buying, and they sell when everyone else is selling," says Naudé. "Confidence is gone despite the generally quick and positive intervention by governments...