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...that brings us back to the job market. The week?s spate of economic reports culminates with the number everybody?s afraid of - July unemployment - and makes a few consumer-related stops along the way. Tuesday brings personal income for June and Consumer Confidence for July (and the Chicago Purchasing Managers Index for July, which?ll be bad news for manufacturing, but you knew that). Wednesday gives us auto and truck sales for July, and construction spending for June and National Association Purchasing Managers for July (see CPMI, above). Thursday sets the table with weekly Initial Unemployment Claims...
...keys. After all, the daytime soap operas have been doing it for years. By the standards of today's movies or cocktail parties, bolder is not even much bolder. Nor are all of the season's shows cultivating a racier-than-thou attitude. The coming months will offer a spate of conventional programming in every category...
...read about John Adams and the Founding Fathers, or those daring exploits of the Greatest Generation during World War II. But they also serve who only twist the screws--as you'll learn from One Good Turn, a history of the humble screwdriver. It's just one of a spate of oddball history books that eschew the grand and the momentous in favor of the small, the prosaic and the overlooked. Recently we've seen or will soon see histories of, among other things, salt, the ostrich, New York City sewage, flattery and not one but two books about dust...
These days both men spend most of their time together talking about the sagging economy and trying to correct a rash of operating problems Ford Motor has faced, including a spate of new vehicle recalls. The company's new Explorer, a safer SUV, although it is not advertised that way, is one of the recalls...
...divert some 100,000 first- and second-time drug offenders from prisons into rehab over the next three years. "California's Proposition 36 highlights the disgust many feel for our current system," says Rocky Anderson, the Democratic mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah, which has been dealing with a spate of heroin overdose deaths. "Punitive policies, at tremendous taxpayer expense, are an unmitigated failure." Anderson and like-minded officials are sending a message to the White House that if the Bush war on drugs means warehousing users, many states will be conscientious objectors...