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...Broadband, Wall Street has very little reason not to continue cashing in its chips this week. Friday's hefty selloff occurred in a complete optimism vacuum - why buy when unemployment is up, when the dollar won't quit, and when there's naught but dire second-quarter profit warnings in the air? And the bargain-hunters, as a crowd, are a long way from feeling bold enough to rush...
...Roosevelt Room of the West Wing on the morning of June 21, she listened with pursed lips as Nick Calio, the White House legislative director, insisted that President Bush should threaten to veto the patients' bill of rights--legislation aimed at protecting people from the bureaucratic whims of profit-driven HMOs. The bill is badly flawed, Calio argued, and the V word is the only way to force Congress to make it more to Bush's liking. Hughes jumped into the fray. "Once we say veto," she replied, "that's all anyone's going to hear." To Hughes, the counselor...
...analysts wonder if the 100,000 to 125,000 Minis that BMW plans to manufacture each year and sell for roughly $14,000 will ultimately justify the $325 million investment the Bavarian carmaker has sunk into the project. "The big question is: Will they ever turn a reasonable profit?" says Jim Collins, automotive analyst at UBS Warburg...
...This is the only solution to protect small towns,” Tolman said. “We want to make sure that we have a level playing field [with large non-profit institutions]. It’s only an issue of fairness; this is not anti-Harvard...
...horse is out of the barn,” Kaprielian said. “It is not an automatic right of a non-profit that an 1830 statute would not be tinkered with. I would solidly count [the 1830 exemption law] as an archaic statute...