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...Bush team spent their time on the Sunday shows essentially calling for a mass national shopping spree, and some of them are even following their own advice...
...equally conceivable that the worst isn't over. The great unknowable is the significance of American businesses' overinvestment from 1998 to 2000. The buying spree was fueled by the Y2K frenzy, hype that the Internet was the greatest thing since the electric light, and a stock market that rewarded companies that predicted outrageous demand for their products. The overhang of those purchases may depress business investment for another year, however cheap the Fed makes it to borrow...
...object of all this activity and protest is Carolina’s plan to go on a major construction spree over the next decade. The school is currently seeking town approval of a development plan that would create 5.8 million square feet of building space over the next several decades, adding everything from undergraduate dormitories to science labs. To provide some perspective, Harvard’s entire campus in Cambridge has only 12.2 million square feet of building space...
...last week, in the eyes of her many critics, she got what she really deserved: a very public complete dressing-down. Saddled with some $3 billion in debt and liabilities from Wachner's acquisition spree and stock buybacks, Warnaco filed for bankruptcy protection. Wachner's collection of fashion brands suddenly doesn't look too flattering. The fallout from a tabloid-headlined legal tussle with Calvin Klein, not to mention a slumping retail economy, adds another wrinkle...
...might have set Dipendra off. Nor did they see what ultimately happened to the Crown Prince, who was found with fatal gunshot wounds on a footbridge between the billiards room and his house across the garden. What they do agree upon is that Dipendra went on a three-minute spree of terror that destroyed a big chunk of his family, changed the line of succession?and traumatized his nation as never before...