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Buffett is in fashion today--but that wasn't the case just a few years ago. In December 1999--about the same time Buffett presciently warned in FORTUNE that stock-market returns were on the verge of a dramatic and long-lasting slowdown--a writer at Barron's stated what many were thinking: "Warren Buffett may be losing his magic touch." As the Internet craze mounted through the '90s, Buffett had become a renowned technophobe. But consider this feat: during the past three grueling bear-market years, Berkshire stock has soared nearly 40%. Those remarkable returns came during a period...
...explosion to 2,000 now. There's concern that Columbia's death could slash the payroll even further. Things are similarly glum in Chicago at the headquarters of Boeing, the shuttle's principal contractor, where workers are still reeling from the 15,000 layoffs that followed the terrorism-related slowdown in air travel...
...past two years, consumer spending has been buoyed by the country's strong housing market, and from April 2001 to April 2002 - when monthly same-store sales grew by an average of 6% - the spending boom was nothing less than phenomenal. But real estate is now facing a slowdown; and like-for-like retail-sales growth fell from 4% in October to 1.7% in December. Should consumer spending tank in Britain, though, the government still has one distinct advantage over its euro-zone neighbors - the ability to spend what it likes without running afoul of Brussels. In 2002, Chancellor Gordon...
...bath, which takes up a third of the total space. "A big bathroom is more fun," says Trapani. "Ultimately we are Italian: we like fun." But there's nothing funny about what's riding on the venture. Bulgari has been particularly hard hit by the luxury-goods slowdown - a softening in the watch business has sent the company's shares, listed since 1995 in Milan and London, plunging to $5 from its all-time high of nearly $16. The company could use a big success, but analysts remain wary about Trapani's hotel project. "Even if it is really successful...
...chains, still trying to recover from the travel slowdown that followed Sept. 11, are experimenting with leitmotivs too. A newly opened Marriott venture in Walnut Creek, California, is a fitness freak's paradise. Renaissance ClubSport Hotel and Fitness Resort's 2.5-hectare campus offers basketball, volleyball, racquetball and squash courts, outdoor boccie courts, three swimming pools and kickboxing classes. All the guest rooms are outfitted with sets of 1-kg dumbbells, and power shakes are on the menu. And the Wild Horse itself is the product of a collaboration between the Sheraton and the Maricopas and Pimas. The $125 million...