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...high at the end of 1999 - and about 9% just in the first month of 2003. Obviously, the most painful dip for any company is one in its own share price. But when market bears roam as widely and fiercely as they have for nearly three years, they can harm even firms whose own shares are doing well. Why? Because in the U.K. almost half the work force subscribes to a corporate retirement scheme - the highest of any E.U. nation. Those funds are overwhelmingly invested in equities, and when the markets tank, firms are hit hard. How hard? Last month...
...Even with a war looming abroad, the administration must maintain concern for the financial problems here at home. But unless he can produce an economic strategy that is more ecconomically feasible and better helps the poor, the President’s efforts could quite possibly do the country more harm than good...
...piece and go out and buy a new DVD player or a dinette set. This conservative rebuttal from the Democrats calls for the dispersal of billions of dollars to millions of people—to the minor benefit of the families getting the money and the great harm of the government handing it out. Here are 10 things the Democrats could propose if the money stayed in federal coffers...
Most of this "e-bomb" development is taking place at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, N.M. The Directed Energy Directorate at Kirtland has been studying how to deliver varying but predictable electrical pulses to inflict increasing levels of harm: to deny, degrade, damage or destroy, to use the Pentagon's parlance. HPM engineers call it "dial-a-hurt." But that hurt can cause unintended problems: beyond taking out a tyrant's silicon chips, HPMs could destroy nearby heart pacemakers and other life-critical electrical systems in hospitals or aboard aircraft (that's why the U.S. military is putting them...
...parents who let their infant children sleep in the same bed with them doing their babies more harm than good? It's an old question that still nags many parents. But a new study shows that the practice among American families is on the rise. The study, led by Marian Willinger of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, found that the percentage of infants who usually sleep in a bed with parents or a caregiver more than doubled from 1993 to 2000, from 5.5% to 12.8%. Nearly 50% of infants in the study spent some time...