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Wall Street thinks Stitzer can do it. In the first half of 2008, sales (unadjusted for currency) rose 14%, to $5.27 billion. Cadbury's clever drumming-gorilla ads helped too. Morgan Stanley said in a recent report that "unlike with many other consumer stocks, we expect Cadbury's earnings growth to accelerate." Says David Morris, food and beverage research director at Mintel International Group, a market-research company: "The spin-off is a smart move. Investors had felt these businesses weren't getting their appropriate valuations when they were combined." As stand-alones, they can also grow by attracting merger...
...Obama, it can also cost him votes elsewhere. So how many Americans will agree with Wright that race is still front and center? The number is notoriously slippery, because voters don't always tell pollsters the truth. At the Weekly Standard, a magazine with a neocon tilt, writer Stanley Kurtz rejects Obama's postracial message because he suspects it isn't sincere. Probing the coverage of Obama's career as an Illinois legislator in the black-oriented newspaper the Chicago Defender, Kurtz concluded, "The politician chronicled here is profoundly race-conscious." Though Kurtz's message is aimed primarily at whites...
...general, Asian Americans are not likely to talk about their psychological problems," says Stanley Sue, a professor of psychology and Asian American studies at U.C. Davis. "Community practitioners notice that Asian Americans are less likely to self-disclose their personal problems." Studies suggest that Asian Americans are also less likely than other groups to use mental health services in cases where it may help, Sue says, preferring to rely on culturally acceptable traditions of discipline and family order...
...Senator is likely to make one public appearance during his time in Hawaii: at a rally on Magic Island, a park peninsula between Honolulu and Waikiki, according to the Honolulu Advertiser. He has previously said he'd like to give a speech at Punchbowl National Cemetery, where his grandfather, Stanley Dunham, a World War II veteran, is interred, though the campaign hasn't disclosed yet if he will do so on this trip...
...fully grasp why the economy is the first, last and only issue on the minds of Michigan voters this year, one fact reveals all: two months after the Detroit Red Wings won the Stanley Cup, there is no waiting list for season tickets...