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That's to say, insiders have no crystal ball but they often have access to up-to-the-minute sales data as well as firsthand impressions from their sales managers - and that gives them an inside track on what's happening in the economy. When this special access leads them to be big sellers of their stock, well, it's a vote of no confidence in their employer's near-term future...
...soccer team’s all-time leader in points, and was named both a First-Team All American and a semi-finalist for college soccer’s top honor, Andre Akpan felt that he underachieved. “I don’t want to say that I had a bad season, but it’s definitely something I want to improve upon next year,” Akpan said last December.One of the main reasons for his disappointment was a slow start, in which he failed to find the net in any of the team?...
...beating the heat became fashionable in the early to mid-20th century, says Charlie Scheips, author of American Fashion. "All the magazines and tastemakers were centered in big cities, usually in northern climates that had seasons," he notes. In the hot summer months, white clothing kept New York fashion editors cool. But facing, say, heavy fall rain, they might not have been inclined to risk sullying white ensembles with mud - and that sensibility was reflected in the glossy pages of Harper's Bazaar and Vogue, which set the tone for the country...
There is precedent for political haymaking around something as innocuous as a presidential address to students. In 1991, Democrats attacked President George H.W. Bush for spending $26,750 on a private production company to produce his stay-in-school, say-no-to-drugs message, which was carried live on CNN and some PBS stations. "The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the President," House majority leader Dick Gephardt said at the time. The Bush White House's insistence that the speech was "not political" has been echoed in the current Education Department's defense that...
Human-rights organizations say an International Megan's Law would be a step in the right direction. "If we know someone is committing serious crimes at home or overseas, we want to accurately identify them," says Karen Stauss of the Polaris Project, an organization dedicated to combating human-trafficking. Amanda Bissex, UNICEF Thailand's chief of child protection, agrees that H.R. 1623 would benefit vulnerable children. "We need to improve law enforcement and the economic welfare of children," says Bissex, "but we also need to address people's attitudes and create an environment where there is zero tolerance for abuse...