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...morning, the free-fall was leveling off. Selling Intel - down 13 points at 10:30 - in the middle of a bloodbath may be good business for the pros, but American investors are well schooled in the buy-and-hold. And they know that a brief run of bad sessions in September - or the one-time underperformance of a stock up 49 percent for the year when the news hit - do not an incumbent-ousting recession make. A few sprightly earnings numbers from the tech sector in October, and the current gloom could be a distant memory...
...wise? The pros and cons may surprise...
...certainly has the statistics to interest American scouts. At 1.78 m and 78 kg, Matsuzaka has a mean fastball, clocked as high as 156 km/h, which he mixes with his other pitches: a slider, a change-up and a curve. He went straight from high school to the pros, a rarity in Japan, and in his initial season he won 16 games. This year, he has 12 wins?the most victories in the Pacific League?and only five losses, though he has struggled with his control. "I tinkered with my form early in the season," he says...
These guys are pros. They arrived armed with moisture meters, bottled smoke (to check air flow) and a gadget right out of Ghostbusters that reads temperature, humidity and carbon-dioxide and carbon-monoxide levels. But like any good examiner, they started by asking us questions. No, we don't live near chemical plants or landfill, which was the first thing Shaughnessy and Brennan looked for when they arrived this morning. There is traffic a couple of blocks away, which picks up during rush hours. That could mean higher levels of lead and other toxic metals in the soil, which...
...CANDIDATE] 5 Buddy Lee* [PROS] Casual dress implies D.C. outsider status [CONS] Only 13 inches tall [CANDIDATE] 6 Captain Morgan [PROS] Running mate Playboy playmate Kalin Olson helps secure male vote [CONS] Frequently spotted in taverns *Buddy Lee's is a write-in campaign and is not endorsed by the Lee Jeans Company. Buddy was unavailable for comment