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...Ground Zero in Boston...
...incalculable. Insurance companies face staggering claims, and for airlines the unprecedented (and ongoing) total stoppage of all air traffic that began Tuesday will likely be too much for many carriers to recover from. With GDP growth in this August-October third quarter already expected to be at or below zero, the events of Tuesday alone will likely be enough to send the U.S. economy across that line into contraction...
Rice has cultivated an ever higher profile, which by the zero-sum measurements of Washington implies a lower one for Powell. She has expanded her original role as "traffic cop" to include public explanations of policy, like her speech at the National Press Club two months ago, while great communicator Powell has been strangely silent. Rice, not Powell, went to Moscow to jawbone Russian President Vladimir Putin into dropping the 1972 ABM treaty that is blocking Bush's missile-defense plans...
...Rice has cultivated an ever higher profile, which by the zero-sum measurements of Washington implies a lower one for Powell. She has expanded her original role as "traffic cop" to include public explanations of policy, like her speech at the National Press Club two months ago, while great communicator Powell has been strangely silent. Rice, not Powell, went to Moscow to jawbone Russian President Vladimir Putin into dropping the 1972 ABM treaty that is blocking Bush's missile-defense plans...
Over 1 million layoffs so far in 2001, goes the glum economic headline from the head-counters at outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, and it's just the latest. The economy is barely above zero growth. Wall Street keeps selling off its rallies. C, G & C claims that "there is no evidence reported by any industry that anything that could be called a significant sustainable rebound is on the horizon for this year or even into early next year...