Word: quarters
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This year, financial-sector earnings probably troughed in the first quarter, so the risk becomes don't be too underweight. It takes a huge swing to go from not owning any financial stocks to being market weight in financial stocks. Big investors are scrambling to catch up. (Read "The Outlook for Stocks is Decidedly ... Mixed...
...strong demand for the anti-Red Bull too. The company's revenues, though small, were up 198% in 2008, to $2.2 million, and it turned a $172,000 profit last year, compared with a $320,000 loss in 2007. Peter Bianchi, founder and CEO of Innovative Beverage, says first quarter '09 revenues, fueled by Drank's success, are up 534% year over year. During the past few months, the company has signed a slew of distribution deals in places like Atlanta, St. Louis, Mo., and Grand Rapids, Mich. And at the end of April, the emerging brand scored...
Halle may be a lot more prosperous than it was 20 years ago, but it's still far from being a happy place. Its population has shrunk dramatically, falling by more than one-quarter to 230,000 since 1990 as young people have left to find jobs elsewhere. Despite the exodus, and a birthrate that has dwindled to almost nothing, the town still has an unemployment rate of about 14%, double that in the old West Germany. And as a new economic crisis strikes - this time a global one - Halle isn't immune. Its economy has crashed in the past...
There is time. Yet this scholar-Pope knows that history's long rhythms also dictate that a great project is not completed or fulfilled in a year, decade or even quarter-century. Some of Benedict's would-be defenders suggest that once he has made his visit to the Jewish homeland, the Pope is right to "move on." He knows better: like any other vital priority his church takes into its stewardship, this one too must be heeded and tended, not just now but for the (very) long haul...
...having even been consulted. So great is the lack of consideration awarded Quad concerns that during town-hall meetings, administration officials professed unawareness of the ineffectuality of the escort and van service and even ignorance about transportation available for Quad students with disabilities. Quad students, constituting a full quarter of the undergraduate student body, do not deserve to suffer from such flippantly imposed cuts...