Word: anyways
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Well - it's about the weather, anyway. For the past 24 hours, the cable news networks have turned into so many franchises of The Weather Channel, hauling out the Doppler machines and precipitation maps almost as often as those goofy electoral maps. (More on those later.) Between CNN, MSNBC and Fox, we've heard more about the weather in the Dakotas than we're likely to hear in a lifetime. (I for one was surprised to learn there are times in the upper Great Plains when it doesn't snow.) MSNBC supplemented footage of Fred Rogers going to the polls...
...Bill O'Reilly - notoriously hostile to the Clinton-Gore administration - adamantly predicted that he would call Florida during his 8 p.m. Fox broadcast. O'Reilly may well not get his wish. But there will be plenty of De Sotos ready to plant the flag in Florida by then anyway. Florida may be won and lost many times before the night's over...
...unless you're paying attention, anyway...
...current dismantling is about failure. AT&T's business services and long-distance operations are suffering, reflected in the stock's 64% plunge since March. And two of the parts, initially anyway, won't enjoy the freedom so vital to effective spin-offs. The cable and consumer businesses will be tracking stocks. Their earnings will be reported separately, but managers must still compete for resources within...
...whomever Main Street chooses, Wall Street will get along. There was a winter-spring rally due anyway, at which point the markets and the economy have to take a deep breath and figure out what they're going to do next. But with eight years of boom in the rearview, it's a good bet that the next four will be host to some rocky sailing. Set aside the worst-case scenarios - Bush, dispensing tax breaks to the highest bidder, rides the prosperity into the ground, whooping like Slim Pickens; Gore, horrified at the thought of making money from human...