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...every car and shatter-resistant glass. Since then, he's toiled on unglamorous issues like electric-utility rates. And he's inveighed against global-trade deals. It was Nader-founded groups that helped lead the Seattle WTO protests and who are shaping the IMF protests. "This is what a robust democracy should be about," he says...
...about where prices are headed--only that confusion reigns. A lot of market watchers believe that the NASDAQ's low point last week will prove to be a bottom. They cite the quick rebound and the broad strength in blue chips and the general economy, as well as the robust profit reports that are expected in the coming days and weeks...
Through the early 1990s even, business was robust...
Never mind that the markets shrugged, then rallied. The Dow closed the week up 4.9%; the supercharged NASDAQ rose 3.4%. That may only strengthen Greenspan's resolve. To be sure, the economy has been dangerously robust the past couple of quarters. And the gross domestic product is expected to rise 4.1% this year, well ahead of the Fed's presumed "speed limit" of around 3.5%. The torrid growth rate is what Greenspan cites most often when justifying rate increases...
...first big Hollywood role in Romeo Must Die, director Andrzej Bart-kowiak's star-crossed-killers melodrama that earned a robust $4.1 million on its midweek opening day and kept on kicking all weekend. Soon he may play Kato (Bruce Lee's role on '60s TV) in an update of The Green Hornet or a role in a sequel to The Matrix. It's all part of Li's strategy: "First you open the door so people know who Jet Li is. Next you prove yourself and make some money for the studio. Then you'll have the chance...