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...sucker into buying ads. Dozens of new TV programs are unveiled here each year -comedies, dramas, specials, reality shows. It's like Christmas all week -albeit a Christmas where you know 90% of your presents will suck, and most will end up, unloved and barely used, in the garbage scant weeks after they're opened...
...Talk about uncertainty. Demand is still in question, thanks to rising unemployment, a cooling housing market and record levels of consumer debt. Supply is even harder to smile about; businesses are still unraveling their own debt and accounting messes, while profits are scant. Want to know what Wall Street thinks of the future? Monday morning, Merrill Lynch reported that a survey of Wall Street strategists found that 69 percent say this is a good time to buy stocks - and told clients to sell, since with that much optimism there was sure to be further disappointment. And by the closing bell...
...along with making airport-security workers federal employees and yanked his corporate tax breaks out of the economic-stimulus package. G.O.P. leaders persuaded him to "postpone" Social Security reform, and members of both parties compelled him to rewrite his faith-based charity initiative so drastically that it now bears scant resemblance to the original proposal. Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee shot down his nomination of Charles Pickering for the federal appeals court. And just last week the Senate, by a 60-to-40 vote, sent him John McCain's campaign-finance-reform bill, which he does not want...
...operation in Yemen best demonstrates the latter point. In a war-torn country where, less than two years ago, terrorists bombed the U.S.S. Cole, Bush has authorized the deployment of a scant 100 troops. What is more, this contingent will not be deployed as a single unit, but in groups of 20 to 30, rendering them effectively dependent on a weak Yemeni government for security...
While the schedule provides detailed outlines for the rest of this month, the plan is quite scant for later periods...