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...When NBC started advertising its new game show “The Weakest Link” as “Survivor” crossed with “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,” I groaned inwardly and looked for popcorn to throw at the television set. To make matters worse, this thoroughly unoriginal concept was also, like “Millionaire,” to be imported straight from Britain without even the slightest tinkering. And to play it as safe as humanly possible, the producers imported the host straight from the Brits too?...
...Overall, though, industrial production in the first quarter was down 4.7 percent, which is the weakest since the first quarter of 1991, the last recession. And this increase is the first in six months, and it's so modest that it can probably be chalked up to one sector - autos...
...have to be the weakest person in the world. And if I can tell my story, you can," said one student. "I would have nightmares and flashbacks, but in the past several months I have realized that there is nothing wrong with me. The only person to blame is the person who attacks...
...Bernard Baumohl: After five months of falling consumer confidence numbers, the survey has rebounded, not just slightly but dramatically. The jump mostly comes from the part of the survey that's been weakest in the recent slide - consumers' outlook for the economic situation over the next six months. They're more hopeful that the economy will rebound by the end of the year, and that we'll avoid a recession...
...corporate spending slowdown continues unabated. Merrill Lynch projects that business spending on equipment and software will rise only 4.5% this year--the weakest showing since the last recession, in 1991. On Friday the government reported that industrial production dropped for the fifth month in a row. "People are counting too much on the Fed," says Ken Shea, head of stock research at S&P. "The cost of capital is not the issue. The corporate executives do not want to spend right now." After huge technology investments in the past 10 years, many companies have all the firepower they will need...