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Tweeting was the breakout Web term for 2009. The early favorite for 2010? Checking...
...make for good financial headlines but they don't necessarily reflect the growth of the underlying business. Indeed, most companies have just wrapped up a year of dismal quarterly results where many slashed jobs and other expenses to weather the debilitating recession and frozen credit markets. Thus, the near-term earnings may look much improved even though demand for a company's products may have slumped. "Cost-cutting has been the major force driving earnings and earnings surprises," says Dirk Van Dijk, chief equity strategist at Zacks Investment Research, which monitors earnings projections from Wall Street analysts. And "clearly companies...
...crucial in pushing the world down a low-carbon path. If there's a secret weapon buried in the accord, it's this: governments will not act alone but will vigorously engage the business world. "We can only meet this challenge," says Stern, "if we can generate sustained, long-term investment in the clean-energy economy." (See the top 10 green ideas...
Marjorie C. Decker, who is currently serving her sixth term as a Cambridge City Councillor, told The Crimson, “I am strongly considering this and there’s a strong chance I’m going...
...days before his death, Rosenberg, a divorced corporate attorney, was depressed over the killings of one of his clients and his client's daughter, with whom he was in a long-term relationship, a family member said. A Harvard- and Oxford-educated lawyer, Rosenberg represented coffee baron Khalil Musa. Musa and his daughter Marjorie were shot to death in front of a Guatemala City shopping center in April...