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Historians will have an easy time arguing that the race was always Bush's to lose; he scarcely ever ran behind, from Labor Day on. A country will seldom discharge a Commander in Chief during wartime, particularly one who had sustained a higher level of approval for longer than any modern U.S. President. Economist Ray Fair devised a model that weighs inflation and growth rates, and by his formula, Bush looked on track to win 58% of the popular vote. And he was running against a New England Senator so stiff, he creaked, when no non-Southern Democrat...
...crapshoot, a five-week run through a gauntlet where Bush--or someone acting in his interest--would surely attack Kerry with a well-financed ad campaign. Kerry, meanwhile, would need to sit tight, take the hit and conserve his $75 million for the ad fight after Labor Day. "Opting in was an enormous calculated risk," said an aide. "It meant crossing our fingers. But we had to take that risk...
...runner” is a bit silly at this point. We still have two massive biopics. We have The Phantom of the Opera. We have plenty of arty movies to fill in the gaps. And Fahrenheit 9/11 isn’t going anywhere—the Weinsteins will likely labor to get Michael Moore’s film nominated for everything from Best Picture to Best Original Song...
...easiest company to do business with," according to the trade publication Sporting Goods Investor. As for the wage gap, Davis says it's overblown. All his U.S. plants are highly automated, with bar-coded parts and computerized stitching and embroidery machines, resulting in about 25 minutes of manual labor to produce a pair of shoes versus more than four hours in a less automated Asian plant...
...Daily wage for opium laborers in Afghanistan, twice the average daily pay for unskilled labor in that country...