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Could the closest and most bitterly divisive election in modern American history prove to be a boon to the U.S. economy? Absolutely, say members of TIME's Board of Economists, who gathered in Washington to assess the outlook after the murkiest presidential election in a century. With neither George W. Bush nor Al Gore commanding a clear mandate and the U.S. Senate virtually split down the middle, TIME's experts saw little risk of any broad and possibly destabilizing shifts in economic policy next year--regardless of who becomes the 43rd President...
...greatest wild card, the sector with the vastest potential and murkiest future, is biotech. Developments that will cure cancer and extend human life beyond age 150 will arrive in this century. If one enterprise were to commercialize these developments in some proprietary way, then it's easy to imagine that firm's becoming the world's largest by far. But these are matters of life and death, so it's just as easy to imagine political pressures preventing biotech from spawning the globe's biggest company...
...Ickes decision is Reno's murkiest -- and therefore biggest -- in a while. Any investigator she appoints will quickly head, with cameras rolling and Republicans crowing, to Clinton and Gore. By delaying, Reno may be hoping the Starr-tainted independent counsel statute will be quietly discarded when it comes up for renewal this winter. In that case, Reno could pick Al Gore's poison instead of leaving the three-judge panel that chose Starr to work its magic again. With even Reno's own staff pulling her in different directions these days, fear of a sequel -- and consequently, the need...
...wonder what kind of loyalty it really was. She chose loyalty to person over loyalty to country, deciding that the greater good of the country was not worth betraying the President for whatever crimes he had committed. Woods's portrait is where the question of loyalty becomes murkiest, and I'm not sure how many of us would point to her as an example of all that is good about loyalty...
...murkiest set of provisions -- designed to assist economic growth -- would introduce a large new loophole for those who buy stock in certain types of companies capitalized at less than $50 million. Regulations for this measure have not been written; critics charged that the scheme would create a new set of tax shelters -- dodges that do little for the economy but benefit those who can strain large profits through porous rules...