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...more stable dollar will also steady interest rates, a key factor affecting stock prices. Interest rates in the credit markets declined yesterday...
Senate Republican sources said on Tuesday that no objections were raised to Kennedy by five key Republicans when White House chief of staff Howard H. Baker Jr. brought up his name Monday during a discussion of possible candidates. About half the 13 or 14 names on the list were objected to by at least one of the senators...
Sure looks like the makings of one good old-fashioned race. Here are some of the key matchups that will decide who will capture the Ivy crown...
...Wilson won a Pulitzer Prize for Talley's Folly and Broadway acclaim for Fifth of July, companion pieces set on the same Missouri homestead. In Burn This, he reaches for a less sentimental key. But onstage the louder voice belongs to John Malkovich, a rising star (Death of a Salesman with Dustin Hoffman, Paul Newman's film of The Glass Menagerie) doing an Actors Studio- style star turn. As the intrusive brother, he slams in, bounces off walls, spews a stream of unapologetic profanity, all the while wearing -- at the actor's insistence -- a shoulder-length black wig that brings...
Investors were already poised at the brink of panic, looking for reassurance, when the announcement of a key statistic set them running. The Commerce Department said on Wednesday that the U.S. trade deficit, the closely watched barometer of America's competitive woes, failed to improve as much as investors had hoped: the imbalance between imports and exports fell from the record $16.5 billion in July, but only to $15.7 billion in August. Investors concluded that if a 30% drop in the dollar over the past two years has failed to help cure U.S. trade problems, then perhaps the currency would...