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...American society is easily disprovable. Any competent businessperson in this global age, for instance, can speak to the value of multilingualism as a skill that allows flexibility in communication. As more and more people speak both Spanish and English, increased communication will strengthen the bonds of American society, not weaken them...
...violinist still performing after undergoing two rotator-cuff surgeries. The great Jascha Heifetz ended his concert career when tendon weakness in his right arm prevented him from bowing properly. These days, medical specialists have myriad techniques for keeping performers in playing shape even as their bodies age and muscles weaken. Musicians with dystonia, for example, who often suffer from muscle spasms, now receive experimental new movement and drug therapies...
...apart. Look at operating profits (also called pro forma earnings). That number should include only net income from the company's primary business operations, and it shouldn't differ too greatly from GAAP earnings (total profits), which include special charges like restructuring and acquisitions. Those write-offs "may significantly weaken a balance sheet or impair a competitive business environment," Bianco says. "And they are likely to happen again...
...FIRM DOLLAR Many believe the buck, which slumped 17% against the euro last year, will continue to weaken as the U.S. government keeps spending money it doesn't have. Yet rising interest rates attract foreign investment and often buoy the dollar, which firmed noticeably after Greenspan's rate signal in late January. The buck may hold firm if, as seems logical, Europe cuts interest rates to combat slow growth. A steady dollar would remove the currency edge of foreign securities, which in dollar terms rose nearly twice as much as they did in local currencies last year. You should favor...
Going back on our word like this can only weaken America’s ability to make credible promises in the future. That prospect may not trouble the president, but empty promises are as dangerous as empty threats. Either way, our enemies know that it makes little difference to our military decisions whether they choose to be cooperative or belligerent. So why cooperate? To end up like Saddam “I Opened My Country to Inspectors and All I Got Was This Lousy Spider Hole” Hussein? No thanks...