Word: nears
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...nation's economy: it's growing. Japan posted annualized second-quarter GDP growth of 3.7%, marking its first expansion in more than a year and indicating a possible end to its recession. Along with positive news from Europe, the results fueled hope that a global recovery may be near (though the U.S. continues to lag). They may also cushion the thumping expected for Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party in Aug. 30 elections...
JULY 29 The Arctic Sea's signals are detected near Portugal and France...
...predominantly black Thomas Jefferson High School. At 16, he applied to Harvard, solely because Harvard had gone to the school to recruit. Using a combination of financial aid and scholarships, he graduated in 1975. Ben Bernanke was in his class. In the class-of-'75 yearbook, Bernanke was pictured near Blankfein, who was wearing a fashionable houndstooth blazer with groovy wide lapels. Blankfein then enrolled at Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1978. "At some point, I can't say that I had a disadvantaged background," he says. "After a while, I kind of evolved into having...
...shares of Goldman are worth about $540 million. He bought a tony $27 million Manhattan apartment at "Wall Street's new power address," as the New York Times called it, 15 Central Park West. He also owns a 6,500-sq.-ft. (600 sq m) home in Sagaponack, N.Y., near the ocean. (See pictures of expensive things that money...
Auto sales couldn't be much slower, and the near future isn't looking that much better, says Bruce Rapp, who sells GM cars, Subarus and Jaguars in Syracuse, N.Y. "There's incredible change going on in our industry, and it hasn't shaken out yet," he adds...