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...blowouts can clear a traffic jam on Capitol Hill. For more than a decade, the powerful auto industry has successfully fought any efforts in Washington to publish a ratings system for measuring a vehicle's propensity to roll over. Detroit wasn't going to let some meddling bureaucrats potentially gut its sacred cash cow, the wildly popular and profitable sport-utility vehicles (SUVS). But by last week, as the estimated death toll in the Firestone- tire recall debacle rose to 101, it became increasingly clear to Motown's allies in Washington that the battle had turned against them...
...reports Salomon Smith Barney. Each time stocks rallied through year-end as whatever fears had gripped investors abated. The average four-month gain in those instances was 11%. But even if this year makes it a perfect nine for nine, bonds could do well too. So listen to your gut. Bonds are a great choice if you're worried--and you won't feel sick if stocks lift off without...
...Courtney Gebhart, a SAG strike captain who has had to scramble for good gigs. "But corporate greed is trying to kill the middle class. So what do you get? The teachers, the actors, the MTA in California. Everyone is on strike." Gebhart wants to locate the strike in the gut of, say, a wage slave who sees his company making millions while he can't make the mortgage. "This strike isn't hurting the celebrity, or the bartender/actor who does one commercial a year. But it will completely obliterate the middle-class actor. It'll make him a hobbyist...
play--Zigler says students who approach the class hoping for a gut will be sorely mistaken...
People who know him say his decision will be heavily influenced by that famous gut instinct...