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...capable, and gave her husband too much license. The day after the birth of their fourth son, she had an operation to have her tubes tied. With her consent, he did not accompany her to the hospital, to the consternation of the nursing staff. "I suppose you could say that women are built for sacrifice," she writes...
...online retailing giant, unscathed by the recession, is on a tear, posting robust earnings growth while many other retailers are licking their wounds. Analysts believe the company's profitable run isn't over yet, and say that concerns over competition in its trendy e-reader business are overblown...
...That said, the higher e-book price could actually benefit Amazon's bottom line. "At $9.99, Amazon wasn't making any money," says Hamed Khorsand, an analyst at BWS Financial. "So for Amazon to be forced to sell a product at $12.99, they're basically being allowed to make a profit." If prices continue to escalate higher though, it could be a problem, analysts say...
...three activities contain some element of trading or investing for the firm's own account, possibly employing leverage). Many have dismissed the so-called Volcker rule, which Obama named for former Federal Reserve chairman and current presidential adviser Paul Volcker (who has championed the proposal), as unnecessary. They say proprietary trading played a very limited role in causing the financial crisis, that poor lending and underwriting were more to blame...
...Beijing's determination to keep its growth rate high and its military up to date limits its ability to alienate other world powers. A boycott, say, of U.S. weapons suppliers over Taiwan (as Beijing has threatened) would simply mean China buying more from European competitors. As satisfying to Chinese jingoists as talk of future military action against Taiwan may be, the flow of Taiwan investment into China is crucial to the mainland's economic health. As, of course, is trade between China and the U.S., which also have a body of water between them and economies growing ever closer...