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One of the largest American companies that reached a crisis in the last month is Dow Chemical. It lost a deal with Kuwait that would have given it about $7 billion. It also bid to buy Rohm & Hass (ROH). Now that the money from Kuwait is gone and the worldwide...
The clips are exceptionally well chosen. For the uninitiated, there's the famous "seven dirty words" routine (the seven still bleeped, of course), and his still audacious routines on religion and death. But there are also generous helpings of early bits from his short-hair days (cracking up Johnny Carson...
By these measures, some of the tax cuts in the current House and Senate plans are hard to defend. For example, both chambers included a tax credit for first-time home buyers, a classic hair-of-the-dog solution to a crisis with roots in an artificially inflated housing market...
The new state budget proposed by Mass. Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 calls for raising the cap on charter school spending to 12 percent from nine percent—a move that could allow for the creation of a fourth charter school in Cambridge. The proposal was...
In the days following John McCain's loss to Barack Obama, Steele declared on Fox News his interest in the RNC chairmanship - even though the sitting chair had not said he was leaving at the start of the new presidential Administration (and indeed, Mike Duncan was one of the candidates...