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...housing market's foundation is solid. On the supply side, the inventory of houses for sale is lean and buildable lots in desirable neighborhoods are scarce. On the demand side, an increase in immigration, the coming of age of baby-boomer children, and affordable-loan programs for low-income families are fueling the market for starter homes. Boomers are in their prime earning years and are eager to move up to larger digs or acquire a vacation home. And best of all, interest rates are low. "We've looked at the bubble question, and we've concluded that...
...most certainly the story of the black slave York, who also cast votes during this allegedly democratic adventure. It's even the story of Seaman, the domesticated Newfoundland dog who must have been a welcome and friendly presence and who survived the risk of becoming supper during one lean time or another. The Lewis and Clark Expedition was exactly the kind of multicultural, trigenerational, bigendered, animal-friendly, government-supported, partly French-Canadian project that should rightly be celebrated by liberals and castigated by conservatives...
...move in quickly to slash costs and consolidate and close factories; top executives were usually shown the door in favor of eager, young middle managers willing to work long hours. To make sure his charges made their numbers, Kozlowski dangled rich performance bonuses. And he insisted on running a lean, decentralized operation. Memos are practically forbidden, as are lengthy meetings. Only about 150 employees--mainly top executives, lawyers, accountants and bankers--work at headquarters in Exeter...
...dispute requires American diplomatic attention and threatens to affect Washington's war on terror, particularly as Pakistan moves troops away from its western border with Afghanistan to the Kashmir front. U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage is scheduled to visit India and Pakistan this week to lean on both sides. Soon thereafter, it will be Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's turn to journey to the region and remind both parties that mutually assured destruction means just that...
...some ways easier in a recession: loans are cheap, and hiring is easy. Sean O'Scannlain, 37, managed a Chicago seafood company for seven years but left to start a competing firm last July. The Sept. 11 airport closures disrupted shipments for weeks and forced him to run lean. "We're far better now for having gone through a very difficult nine or 10 months," O'Scannlain says. For Lauren Creamer, 27, of Brighton, Mass., two years of fighting the bureaucracy at a large nonprofit convinced her that she would be happier working for herself. She started looking for investors...