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...Which brings us to the biggest storm cloud out there: The economy, is she slowing too fast? Formerly high-flying retailers - Gap, J.C. Penney, Target, Home Depot, and Wal-Mart (yes, Wal-Mart) - have been getting downgraded by analysts and dumped by investors, as profit warning after profit warning comes out. When this consumer-driven economy cools, it's the malls that feel the pain first...
...storm, Callaway is fairly sanguine about the future of McNeely?s book. "We?re developing contingency publishing plans in the U.S. for the Clinton title." It?s even possible, Callaway concedes, that the clamor surrounding the book?s release could help sales, assuming the publisher can find a way to produce more copies. In the meantime, Callaway is left shaking his head bemusedly over the uproar. "We?ve gotten caught in some kind of customs crossfire...
...forward part of the Kursk would have caused the bow to drop, pitching the 14,000-ton boat into a steep dive with steam turbines still delivering power to its twin screws. In seconds, the sub would have pounded into the seabed some 350 ft. beneath the storm-driven surface of the Barents Sea with a shock that would have hurled survivors against equipment and bulkheads. Finally, as the boat settled onto the ocean floor, openings along the keel would probably no longer have been able to draw in seawater needed to cool the reactors. Automatic systems would have "scrammed...
...sometimes offers her father a sense of how things are playing in the real world. In March Gore created a fire storm when he broke with the White House to support permanent residency for Elian Gonzalez, a move seen as pandering to Florida's Cuban vote. At first the campaign stonewalled the press, hoping the problem would "just go away," as a top adviser put it. "[Karenna] said, 'You need to explain this.'" About a week later, Gore went on the Today show. Though it failed to undo the damage, it did take some of the bite...
...tenth of the country's armor can fit on a single commercial freighter, and last week Canadian troops had to storm that freighter to get it back. The equipment, en route home from Kosovo, had been held up by the shipping firm because of an unpaid bill...