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...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...
Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council (FRC), a conservative lobbying group, and Hadley P. Arkes, Ney professor of American institutes at Amherst College, told a standing-room-only crowd in Austin Hall that allowing gay marriages would weaken social institutions...
...power to homes and other types of buildings. Nanosys is combining the science of solar cells with the science of nanotechnology, which manipulates items as small as an atom to do everything from switching electricity to storing data to sensing the movement of a bridge that is beginning to weaken. Thanks to this, Nanosys can already embed microscopic photovoltaic crystals into plastic sheeting. One prefabricated Nanosys roof could generate enough electricity to run all the appliances in a typical home, including the washing machine, the toaster, the PC and the entertainment center. Electricity generated during the day can be stored...