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Stocks in the S&P 500 are expected to post impressive earnings gains in 2010, but experts caution that the gains may not be sufficient fuel for a continued stock-market rise...
...Zack's consensus of analysts estimates is for a 27% earnings rise for S&P 500 stocks in 2010, but even if this is achieved companies will be earning 9% less in 2010 than they did in the peak 2007 period. Steven Wieting, a managing director and U.S. economist at Citigroup Global Markets, says it will likely be 2012 or 2013 before earnings reach the levels attained in 2007. Maybe by then we'll be back to the stock-market highs that occurred...
...think it’s imperative that we make as convincing a legal argument as possible in the case to overturn Proposition 8,” wrote Timothy P. McCarthy ’93, director of the Human Rights and Social Movements Program at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and a founding member of Barack Obama’s National LGBT Leadership Council, in an e-mailed statement. “Placing the LGBT marriage fight within the context of other historical struggles to overturn similarly discriminatory marriage statutes is a critical...
That's not to say geologists aren't making headway. Instruments that detect P waves are a good example. Earthquakes set off two kinds of seismic vibrations: body waves, which move through the interior of the earth, and surface waves, which move on top. The fastest of the body waves is the P wave, and it's thus the first to travel from the epicenter to a seismic station where it can be detected. P waves don't give you a whole lot of notice, but even a little bit can help. In California, gas lines in many homes...
Councillor David P. Maher had the highest number of votes for the second consecutive week, with four votes from Leland Cheung, Sam Seidel, Timothy J. Toomey and himself. Cheung switched his vote from Marjorie C. Decker—who withdrew from the race—to Maher this week...