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...viola and slide guitars give the whole affair a Western tinge, like the Cowboy Junkies on a bad trip. Yet despite the unremitting, minor-key downbeatness of it all, the album never reaches the depths of claustrophobia and despair that gives Cave his unique edge, and makes him so hard to stomach for most; instead it occasionally wanders into Radiohead territory. Her voice truly is an experience in itself—a gloriously wrecked set of pipes from the desolation of the moon, that at times has the gravely timbre of a suicidal Peter Gabriel. The lyrics...
Bush aides insist the surplus shrank mainly because of the slowing economy--a weakness the Office of Management and Budget, in a report last week, was careful to trace to the stock-market slide that started in March 2000. (Translation: Bill Clinton did it.) In truth, the lack of $46 billion of the missing $123 billion is attributable to lower general tax revenues because of the slowdown. "It's remarkable we have a surplus at all, given the yearlong slowdown," argues OMB director Mitch Daniels. The rest of the shortfall can be traced to Bush's military pay raise...
After watching the markets' slide, you may not have the stomach for picking stocks. So here's a tip from Scudder Investments chief investment strategist Bob Froehlich: Beat everyone else to large multinational companies. Froehlich says that eventually individual investors are going to feel as though they've been penalized for sitting on the sidelines in money-market accounts earning 3%. "When they feel penalized, then the first stop into the equity market is the large-cap multinational company," he says. "You don't come off the sidelines and go to some small biotech company whose name...
...consumer spending kept overall growth from tipping into negative territory and setting off the recession bells anew. They?ve done it all year, shopping resolutely even as cost-cutting companies have announced nearly 1 million layoffs thus far in 2001. And they've been doing it even as they slide ever deeper into personal debt...
...criminal charges don?t stick, he?s probably not looking at a particularly bright forecast. Susan Winckler, a spokesperson for the American Pharmaceutical Association says that even if the Missouri state board of pharmacy doesn't vote to revoke his license, she very much doubts he will just slide right back into his white coat when all this is over. "Nothing like this has ever happened before," Winckler says. "Pharmacists are bound by a code of ethics, and an oath - they?re bound to hold patients above everything...