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Alarm calls are classified as Priority One, meaning they require an immediate response with lights and a siren. But police believe false alarms can needlessly place officers and pedestrians at risk as they try to maneuver through Cambridge's crowded streets...
...value valuators are stirring again. The Graham and Dodd model is still relevant, and the siren song of momentum investing sounds like something heard before. "We had a similar problem in 1929," says Yale economist Robert Shiller, author of Irrational Exuberance, which explores the perils of the present market. "People said then that the old standards for valuing stocks were irrelevant because we were in a new economic...
...sort our the appeals would be made moot by advances in technology. According to reports in three major newspapers Monday morning, the Justice Department and 19 states filing the antitrust suit against Microsoft will seek a breakup of the firm. But that's not the real news. The warning siren from Microsoft's standpoint is that Justice reportedly intends to seek interim relief while the case gets dragged through the nation's courts, including a halt to Microsoft's alleged bullying practices and, more important, having the firm reveal the inner workings of its Windows software. The prosecution has until...
...enough billfold) not to sell every flat surface in sight. But maybe a less well-endowed university--or the struggling public elementary, middle and high schools--might stoop to such tactics in an effort to find the dollars they need by any means necessary. One wonders if the Siren of the market might just be too strong...
...take off last week, however, and the fate of Elian, the lad whose mother Elisabeth drowned while escaping Cuba, leaving him to float on an inner tube for two days, seemed further than ever from being resolved. In fact, Castro's turnabout panicked Miami like an air-raid siren, raising cold war tensions most Americans put behind them a decade ago. As a showdown loomed between the U.S. government and the politically potent and volatile exiles, Elian's welfare once again seemed the last thing on the minds of the Cuban leader and other political opportunists...