Word: weaknessness
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Even that hoary male type, the sitcom dad, is changing. The feminist era took us from Father Knows Best to Father Knows Nothing--buffoons like Home Improvement's Tim Taylor and Homer Simpson, whose lunkheaded maleness is their weakness. Now we're seeing dads like Malcolm in the Middle's...
Americans who vacationed in Europe this summer got to enjoy the benefits of a strong U.S. dollar--better rates on hotel rooms, inexpensive meals and luxury gifts that were cheaper than might have been expected. Well, the vacation is over. The dollar's value has been pounded by the euro...
Investment strategists advise adding some global equity funds to your portfolio. Not only is it a smart way to diversity, but you will be happy you bought some European investments if the euro continues to appreciate. That way, even if hotels and restaurants in Paris are a little more expensive...
And he extends the tradition's emotional and psychological reach. Jakes was 10 when his father, a West Virginian who owned a janitorial business, developed a kidney ailment and died slowly over the next five years. The son comforted his mother and mopped blood from around the dialysis machine. The...
But even if Greenspan moves aggressively, it may not work. His seven cuts in eight months so far have not packed the needed firepower to reverse this torturous slowdown. Indeed, the folks who listen to Greenspan most carefully--those in the Treasury-bond pits--are starting to give up on...