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...after taking over China's presidency from Jiang Zemin. At home, Hu fashions himself as a uniquely accessible Communist Party leader concerned with the plight of common folk--far different from Jiang, who seemed most comfortable in his glitzy Shanghai hometown. Ordinary Chinese welcome Hu's pledge to raise stagnant peasant incomes, his firing of officials for covering up last year's SARS epidemic and his ban on ostentatious airport send-offs for traveling dignitaries. At the same time, he has hobnobbed with leaders of capitalist nations at G-8 meetings and pressured North Korea to surrender its nuclear-weapons...
...chapter in the ongoing love affair between Americans and their television sets," says Ross Rubin, director of industry analysis for NPD Techworld. The romance had been getting a little stale. Even as the number of channels has multiplied, the market for TV sets has been stagnant, at about 2.4 TVs per household, for years. Now those pricey, sexy flat-screens are steadily replacing bulky conventional televisions. Unemployment be damned, Americans are trading...
...paid no premiums before November, 2003. After the premium increase, they found themselves forced to pay $12 for every child enrolled in the program. These increases fall on families already struggling in the face of cuts to other social services and an economy that has left wages stagnant...
...stagnant power play hit a mid-season low of 13.5 percent just before exams, but adopted a new look early in the second half. Pettit moved from his familiar spot on top of the left circle to the point, where Welch had been...
...important in assessing quality, says Pat Dorsey, director of stock analysis at Morningstar and author of The Five Rules for Successful Stock Investing. He encourages investors to measure the trend of net income against cash flow from operations. "If net income keeps rising over time but cash flow is stagnant or declining, then the company is getting that income from noncash sources, and that's low quality," he says. Noncash sources could include the sale of an investment in another company or the divestiture of businesses...