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SPRIGGS: People forget the human capital. The G.I. Bill created much more human capital, which came home to roost in the '60s when the economy took off. The level of inequality in skills in the U.S. shrank. You had a more skilled work force, so when you dip down into the bench, you continue to have productive workers...
...projected annual rate of return is more than 7.5%, a shortfall could bite into future earnings, and "you should be concerned," says Lehman Bros. accounting expert Robert Willens. Watch for off-balance-sheet liabilities, a fancy term for financial risks that the company hopes will never come home to roost, and for development costs that are capitalized instead of expensed. These factors don't mean you should shun a stock; they mean you should check its teeth. Firms with aggressive pension assumptions include IBM and SBC Communications. Among the off-balance-sheet biggies are General Electric and Fannie...
...prices, the eventual result seems to be a taste for speculation and highly developed sense of "gimme" that winds up jeopardizing both the American economy and the vitality of the American democracy. Especially in corporations, this ethical erosion over the last 4-5 years is now coming home to roost...
...attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, however, soon becomes clear: America is a terrorist nation, condemned as such by the World Court, and what happened on 9-11 is simply a matter of, in Malcolm X's memorable phrase, the chickens coming home to roost. He discourses at length (his editors apparently unwilling or unable to expunge repetition from one interview to the next) on American atrocities from Vietnam (which, in his opinion, "began as a U.S. attack against South Vietnam, which was always the main target of the U.S. wars," - a statement that would have been...
...failing miserably), and the hook to “Miss You, Hate You” bears a plagiarism suit-inducing similarity to Matchbox 20’s “Push.” If Vaughan was able to make people care about the blues when rock ruled the roost, perhaps Bonamassa will learn from his idol and stay away from the mainstream. —James A. Crawford