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...consumer-confidence index at election time is above 99, the incumbent's party remains in office; anything lower signals defeat. Since 1968, only Al Gore, who lost in 2000 despite a high consumer-confidence number, had been the exception. But the low October figure of 92.8 didn't hamper Bush...
...unprecedented by almost any count. George H.W. had a copy of Kitty Kelley's dubious family chronicle in his desk, and he did not read it as a book but lifted it out when he got an outraged missive from somebody mentioned in the book and consulted the index to read the offending item, most times agreeing with the person who expoded. Then he put the hefty volume away and was more than a little gratified when it began to fade with the reading public. Michael Moore was another source of pique. Bush wondered why former President Jimmy Carter would...
Independent experts are not so optimistic. The insurgents, who target any Iraqi associated with the occupation or the interim government, have killed nearly 1,500 Iraqi security personnel. The Brookings Institution's Iraq Index tallies just 7,582 Iraqis fully or partly trained for army operations, plus 38,338 less lite national guardsmen. And U.S. and Iraqi officials are worried that the new forces are plagued by corruption and infiltration by insurgents. Baghdad is investigating whether inside collaborators tipped off the rebels who massacred 49 Iraqi trainees last month. Speaking privately, military officers in Washington concede that Iraqi forces...
...Meter Hurdles” and “Long Jump.” The key was not the gameplay, which sucked to oblivion, but the ability to interact with a device that demanded more bodily exertion than simply one’s thumbs and index fingers...
...also smart. In a study done last year, fund firm T. Rowe Price compared the return of a $10,000 investment in the S&P 500 stock-index (with dividends reinvested) to a core fixed-income portfolio (Lehman Brothers U.S. Aggregate bond index). Over the 20-year period from 1983 to 2003, both portfolios generated roughly the same amount of income. However, in terms of overall value, the stock portfolio grew to $71,800, the bond portfolio to only...