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...survival. Organizers of the recall say they have collected more than 500,000 of the 900,000 signatures necessary to qualify for a recall election. "The odds of the recall qualifying have increased to the point of near certainty," says Republican consultant Dan Schnur. And a Democrat strategist acknowledged: "Several people around [Davis] are of the assumption that they have to prepare as if it is going to qualify...
DIED. BURKE MARSHALL, 80, practical, level-headed legal strategist during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations who played a critical role in the desegregation of public facilities in the South; in Newtown, Conn. As Assistant Attorney General in charge of civil rights, the former antitrust lawyer crafted a truce in 1963 between business owners and civil rights activists in the embattled city of Birmingham, Ala.; helped engineer the admission of the University of Mississippi's first black student, James Meredith; and helped draft and push through the Civil Rights...
...Recovery for Real? With the world focusing on droopy consumer confidence and sluggish economic growth, it's easy to overlook the fact that global stock markets have quietly risen over 20% since March 11. What does that mean? Bank of America strategist Lorenzo Codogno believes that while most of us look backward at last quarter's growth, the market is telling us what lies around the bend. "The stock market essentially anticipates the economic situation by three or four quarters," he says. "Right now it is pricing in a recovery for next year." Commerzbank strategist Rolf Elgeti disagrees. He says...
...little foreign exposure, like Alcoa (12% foreign earnings) and Weyerhauser (16%). In Europe focus on multinational consumer-goods firms--Glaxo, Heineken, Novartis, Unilever--because they get a lot of revenue from their U.S. operations and would not suffer much from a currency reversal, says Ian Harnett, chief European-market strategist for UBS Warburg. Firms that rely heavily on sales in Europe will remain weak with the Continental economy. "European companies have not managed to restructure and shed costs as rapidly as those in the U.S.," Harnett notes...
...stalled Europe would help the U.S. deal with one of its main problems: a swelling trade deficit. Foreign capital goes where the growth is, and the U.S. needs such investment to whittle away the deficit, support the dollar and keep growth accelerating. David Bowers, chief global strategist at Merrill Lynch, isn't yet favoring U.S. cyclicals. "But we're watching very closely," he says, "and think the U.S. financial stocks, which have done well, may be giving us a signal" that growth is soon to return...