Word: analyst
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...offered; "I was hoping to turn it over to Jackie," he demurred.) NBC's tag team of Dan Abrams and Pete Williams flipped madly through the opinions, looking with their topcoats, windswept hair and booklets like Victorian gentlemen caroling in legalese. On CBS, Dan Rather--trading spin with analyst Jonathan Turley though neither had read the ruling--was adamant on one point: those of us on Eastern time would definitely see Judging Amy when this report was over...
Except, of course, that it did, as his peers realized as they read on. Some measured up well. Abrams and Williams sussed in a few minutes that Gore had run out of time. But it was excruciating to watch CNN, where legal analyst Roger Cossack stalled pitiably for time as anchors Bernard Shaw and Judy Woodruff pressed him to draw a conclusion, while the clock ticked and rival MSNBC sounded taps for Gore. "So are you saying," Woodruff asked, "it appears that a recount could take place?" "Yes," he finally answered--an ultimately incorrect analysis the network stuck with well...
Perhaps like many consumers, John Benjamin, 36, a credit analyst from Oak Park, Ill., is experiencing the new wealth defect. He plans to shell out 30% less for gifts this year. "My spending habits are correlated to the performance of the market," he says. Others' behavior is correlated to their credit-card debt--and after a decade of buying, and saving next to nothing, Americans are cleaning up their balances...
...provide a backdoor tax cut. That's the gridlock benefit you hear so much about from Wall Street. But it's a mistake to think nothing will happen, especially if Bush prevails. He ran on the promise of a broad tax cut. "He has to deliver something," says political analyst Andy Laperriere at ISI Group...
...Italian ventures. But this wave of German companies isn't buying just studios, as Sony did. These companies are buying production teams and burrowing into the production process. "Each company is pursuing a different strategy involving a complex mix of production and distribution elements," says Stephan Seip, media analyst at Merrill Lynch. Some of those strategies have a fantasy feel--for $65 million, you too can be a movie mogul and rub shoulders with the stars. But others are based on long-term plans and objectives backed by years of experience at home. How well are the newcomers likely...