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...face of appreciation of the dollar and a financial meltdown, dollar-denominated gold has still managed to hang in there, near its high. Speculation remains rampant...
...Justice spoke about her experiences as a female in the traditionally male-dominated field of law. When she attended Harvard Law School, Ginsburg said, she was one of only nine women in her class, and when she began working as a lawyer, legal gender discrimination was rampant...
...World Bank said it first: in 2009, the global economy will contract for the first time since World War II. That's the banner headline of the international financial group's March 9 report, but, particularly for developing countries, the devil runs rampant through the details. (Really, when a report is titled "Swimming Against the Tide," you know there's not much good news forthcoming.) The World Bank paints a downright dismal picture of the growth prospects for developing countries, which are just now beginning to feel the full repercussions of the credit crisis that started in the United States...
...wild-and-crazy guy whose grandfather had co-founded Scripps-Howard Newspapers, Howard recruited smart, aggressive talent throughout the 1970s and let it loose to dig up dirt, badger Denver's cowboy-booted establishment and raise journalistic hell. Occasional newsroom gunplay and rampant staff drug use aside, those Hunter Thompson-like efforts paid off: the Rocky topped the Post's circulation in 1980. (Read "How to Save Your Newspaper...
...money would come in a massive economic-aid package, the Kerry-Lugar bill, which would send $1.5 billion to Pakistan for each of the next five years - although how that aid would be distributed, a crucial question given Pakistan's rampant corruption, has yet to be determined. Military aid to Pakistan will continue as well, but with more strings and supervision than during the Bush Administration. "We have to re-establish close personal relationships with the army," said a senior member of the National Security Council, who was involved in an intense series of meetings with the Pakistani military leadership...