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...staggering amount of lost wealth over the past year is perhaps the most oppressive development. Half of all households own stocks, up from 4% in the early 1950s. Stocks account for about 20% of total household assets, and because stocks fell last year, the net worth of the average American declined for the first time since 1945, according to the Federal Reserve. In the past six months, the market value of household stocks and stock funds fell more than $2 trillion--roughly the same amount of money households earned through wages...
...fascism, for the chance to participate in the triumph of good over evil. An unwritten policy of the U.S. Army barred the Lincoln vets from the front lines; like blacks during the war, the Brigaders, despite their combat experience, were relegated to demeaning tasks far from battlefields. In the 1950s, communist witch-hunters imprisoned and fined veterans of the Brigade because of their present or former affiliation to the Communist Party...
...confirmed my suspicions. Bush will not regulate carbon dioxide emissions. Republicans are well known for comparing government to the private sector. Indeed, The New York Times credited Bush with bringing a "corporate look" to the White House, and Slate.com satirically christened Bush a "1950s CEO." So in an attempt to deal with my disappointment, I have tried to understand his decision from a business perspective. Yet even then the verdict of the man who is "restoring honesty and integrity" to the White House doesn...
When I was a teenager growing up in Arkansas, I stored my 12-gauge shotgun under my bed. I took it out when I went with Dad to shoot clay pigeons. That wasn't back in the 1950s but rather the late '80s; even in that recent decade, I wasn't considered an outcast. Lots of kids drove to school with rifles they had forgotten to take from gun racks over the weekend. A teacher might cluck disapprovingly, but no one called a SWAT team...
Just like a doughnut, right? Wrong. "We're a multisensory experience," corrects chairman and CEO Scott Livengood, referring to the tastes, smells and sights in each of Krispy Kreme's 178 outlets in 28 states. Don't confuse that with streaming video; these establishments look like 1950s coffee shops. Customers can watch the doughnuts rising, and stores flash their HOT DOUGHNUTS NOW signs when the snacks are done. That sugar-coated assault on the senses has won Krispy Kreme (fiscal 2001 revenues: $301 million) a near cult following since founder Vernon Rudolph fried up his first batch in a Winston...