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...something that can be accomplished solely with the support of liberals and minorities - not in Missouri. Here in the borderland between North and South, between East and West, between rich and poor, between city and farm, any would-be President must stay competitive among white voters of modest and middle incomes...
...classroom, a difficult relationship with her more bourgeois sister and her dismal husband. Poppy's peppiness sustains her in other, less dramatically pointed ways as well. Like a lot of single working women, she makes a life with her girl friends - disco dancing, afternoons in the park, modest attempts at self-improvement - that to a degree compensates for their lack of romantic relationships...
...crisis that has been roiling debt markets finally slopped over to equities in full force. The euphoria of the last hour of trading on Friday - when major markets turned positive and then ended the day only slightly down, with the Dow dropping a relatively modest 128 points, to 8,451.19 - hardly offset the terror of a rambunctious 700-point drop in the Dow at the opening bell. Events were so overwhelming that when the cost of a barrel of oil hit a 13-month low, the news barely registered. At 2 p.m., the VIX - a measure of expected stock-market...
Sino-U.S. joint ventures are just a modest beginning to repair China's ailing health-care system, according to Pasqualine Wolfermann, emergency-response director for MEDEX Global Group Inc., a travel-assistance and medical-insurance company based in Baltimore. "For the extent of the population and the number of business travelers now in the area, there's really not enough," she says. MEDEX still transports its most seriously ill clients to Hong Kong. "In terms of medical care, China is one of the most challenging countries," she says. But it's also ripe with opportunity for businesses with...
...survive it: invest in knowledge, compete globally, rewrite the old rules of business. A couple of its signature companies, such as Alcoa, have announced cutbacks as demand slows. "No area is totally immune, but it is going to be, if we are right, a bit more modest in Pittsburgh," says Stuart Hoffman, PNC's chief economist. From ground level, Bob Intrieri can see the same thing. A partner at Allegheny Steel Products, he sells industrial innards to the machine shops and factories in the region: forgings, hubs, steel bars, wire belts used in furnaces--the stuff the global economy runs...