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Tell me about Charlotte, her mother. Charlotte is one of these conflicted mothers who thinks she truly is trying to do the best thing she can for her child, which I think many of us do. But unfortunately she's doing it with blinders on and she's not seeing the repercussions of her actions. Charlotte loves her daughter to death but, as often as is the case in America, she is completely financially strapped by caring for a disabled child. And insurance doesn't cover it. And she winds up figuring out, with the help of an attorney, that...
...Other than the fact that both hail from Minneapolis, what brings this odd couple together is one thing: money. Linking up with an exclusive retailer is not a new idea, but it has proven to be quite a profitable one of late, at least for well-established musicians. The Eagles and AC/DC released their most recent original albums exclusively through Wal-Mart, and in January, Bruce Springsteen gave the chain an exclusive greatest-hits set. Each benefited from massive in-store promotion and stop-the-cart placement - AC/DC's Black Ice sold 1.92 million copies to rank as the fifth...
...this be avoided? You have to have a set of concerted, coherent policies done not just by the U.S. but by Europe, Japan, China and everyone else. The credit crunch is just massive. One thing that's needed is much more aggressive monetary easing. The second dimension is that you need much more fiscal stimulus - in the countries that can afford it - that is front-loaded. The U.S. [stimulus package] is $800 billion, but only $200 billion is front-loaded. Of that $200 billion [in stimulus] this year, half of it is tax cuts. That's going...
...first thing to watch for is the S&P 500 to trade flat for three months. While it continues to move down, investors are expecting two or three more quarters of bad earnings. If it spikes up too early, a rally probably cannot be sustained. A flat market at least indicates that investors are becoming more at ease with the economy...
...charm. Maybe I should be wary of him.7. FM: Do you (JW) think there should be more emphasis on criticism in undergraduate English courses? JW: Yeah, I do. If most English concentrators don’t go on to become professionally involved with literature, then the one thing you can give them actually, to carry with them in life, is some evaluative capacity. And it can be just another part of the whole repertoire of attending to a text—it doesn’t have to be a sort of “thumbs up, thumbs down?...