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...last week's good news traveled in a sort of endless loop around the stock price, which remained locked at about $130. If, as F. Scott Fitzgerald famously remarked, there are no second acts in American lives, they are even rarer in American business recoveries. Act One, of course, will be familiar to most of our audience from the recent performance of AT&T: fire nearly everyone in sight. It's Act Two--creating sustainable, profitable growth--that seems to be the tricky part. Companies such as K Mart have performed brilliantly in the Sweeney Todd role, slicing overhead...
Despite some impressive addresses--the Sears Tower, the Wrigley Building--the heart of District 7 is the tough ghetto west of the Loop. That could explain why Davis won the primary despite a controversial endorsement from a local gangster...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "The middle-class working family has been left out of the loop for too long. It is time to help those who have for years helped themselves by working and paying their way, only to find themselves on the short...
...Yorker and long-time Washington observer. But before you race to catch the performance on C-SPAN (where the show will in fact be aired) you must be warned of one thing: this is a play of politicos, by politicos, and for politicos. The Gov Jocks and "in the loop" political junkies among us will chuckle with knowing recognition when faced with Blumenthal's expose of the inner workings of the Washington power game. But after two hours of this brutally honest portrayal of the machinations of the District of Columbia, the apathetic and cynical may only find justification...
...work for the Beltway-savvy. If you haven't seen a White House briefing and aren't familiar with popular press figures, it's hard to play along. Likewise, many of the jokes and comments about various scandals and D.C. high-society may make many feel "out of the loop...