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...work uptown. The moguls who do work in the WTC for the most part don't catch the early train to get in by 9. How people behaved was in many cases inversely proportional to their position in the corporate hierarchy. WTC security guard Esmerlin Salcedo was in no peril on the day of the attack since he was attending a computer class at a safe distance away. But when he heard the first strike, he raced from his class to his desk at the command center on the B-1 level. He walked fellow worker Roselyn Braud...
...falling and banks are sitting on mountains of bad debt Koizumi's plan: The central bank is in effect printing more money to try to stimulate the economy. Koizumi wants to force bad businesses to fail, meaning more short-term pain Outlook: POOR. His reform agenda is in peril because of the economic slide
Bush's greatest political peril will come if he and the Congress eat up great hunks of the Social Security trust fund (they are already raiding Medicare, something the OMB report went to great pains to say didn't matter) to meet general operating expenses. The $158 billion Social Security surplus is as tempting to Democrats as it is to Bush, who vowed again last week to increase defense and education spending. But there's a compelling reason to hold the line. Neither party wants to be at the wrong end of attack commercials next fall saying it sold...
...writers were underpaid company shlubs on three-day weekends if they were lucky - remember, this was before the bubble - and they were the first ones back to their desks when the news hit. And for the rest of the press, the message was clear: Leave town at your peril. We can fill...
...worthy of protection, and any kind of research that entails destroying an embryo to harvest its cells is immoral, no matter how worthy the intent. It involves using people as means; it turns human life into a commodity and fosters a culture of dehumanization that we accept at our peril. "We have just enough time to ensure that we remain the masters of our technology," warned Henry Hyde, "not its products...