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...prolonged downturn, it will become an issue," says Andrew Goodwin, a senior economist at Oxford Economics, who nonetheless believes that while "there is a concern about dependency, financial services have done well historically." At the Guildhall, which is where the City administration is based, policy head Stuart Fraser is bracing for a slump as severe as the one in the early '90s, when house prices collapsed and unemployment soared. Still, he adds, "It's like the aircraft industry. A plane will crash occasionally but what you don't do is stop flying...
...invest in knowledge, compete globally, rewrite the old rules of business. A couple of its signature companies, such as Alcoa, have announced cutbacks as demand slows. "No area is totally immune, but it is going to be, if we are right, a bit more modest in Pittsburgh," says Stuart Hoffman, PNC's chief economist. From ground level, Bob Intrieri can see the same thing. A partner at Allegheny Steel Products, he sells industrial innards to the machine shops and factories in the region: forgings, hubs, steel bars, wire belts used in furnaces--the stuff the global economy runs...
...that John McCain has committed to turning up, he and Barack Obama will take the stage tonight with their rhetoric and demeanor set to a specific temperature. "Do you want a hot debate or a cold debate?" asks Stuart Stevens, a Republican media consultant, author and screenwriter who helped prep George W. Bush for his encounters with Al Gore in 2000. "You have to decide...
...collections to be reinstalled. The goal is for the new, expanded Fogg to re-open in 2013, after all current Harvard undergraduate classes have moved on. NEW WINGS AND OTHER THINGSThe Quincy Street expansion proposed by architect Renzo Piano, who is also currently renovating the Isabella Stuart Gardener museum in Boston, will be the first substantial renovation of the Fogg. Additions have been made to the Prescott Street side of the facility, but the original 1927 section of the building—which replaced the 1895 building that first housed the museum—has never been significantly altered. Piano?...
This church (pictured above), near Megalopoli in Greece, used to be part of a village. By the time British photographer Stuart Franklin visited and took the picture in 2007, work crews had leveled the other buildings and scraped out the earth to extract lignite (brown coal), used to fuel a nearby power station. The crews were too superstitious to destroy a holy place, a guide told Franklin. Far above the new ground level, the edifice is now inaccessible...