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...newspaper world, getting married, and moving to New York to enter the glamorous advertising industry. Yet just as Hildy, suitcase in hand, is ready to leave the press room forever, news suddenly breaks: Williams has escaped, and a scramble to find him ensues throughout the whole city. Unable to resist the temptation, Hildy decides to report on the case. But while Hildy is alone in the newsroom, Williams himself climbs in through the pressroom window. He claims that he is innocent and was framed as part of a crooked deal between the city’s sheriff and mayor...
...dollar. Extending unemployment benefits would bring in $1.63; infrastructure spending, $1.59; and a temporary increase in food-stamp benefits, $1.73. Making the Bush income tax cuts permanent would bring in just 31¢ on the dollar. So spending increases would seem to be in order. Bush has resisted that so far--and may continue to resist. In January that won't matter anymore. Then we get to find out if fiscal stimulus really can save...
...year in sales. That's a power portfolio by any measure. But this year has taken a big bite out of the company's profitability. Cost inflation of close to 10% in 2008 means each bag of chips has cost Pepsi more to produce, even as belt-tightening consumers resist paying more for their food. Earlier this year, skyrocketing prices for corn, rice, wheat, vegetable oils and other key ingredients further added to core expenses, shrinking Pepsi's margins. Even packaging and delivery costs have risen. In response, CEO Indra Nooyi recently announced that the company would...
...rise to become the most influential Italian politician of his generation. At times, one sees that the former real estate and media mogul is aching to be considered a leading statesman, with all the gravitas that entails. But all too often, it seems, he just can't resist another juvenile jape...
Throughout his presidential campaign, Barack Obama pledged that, if elected, he would work to bridge the partisan divide. "Let us resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long," he said Tuesday night in his victory speech...