Word: basing
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...APPEAL A minority or female Veep would fire up the Democratic base like nothing else. Now he has to find one who fits the bill BEST: Dianne Feinstein WORST: Jim Hunt...
...whose hotels were emptied after an outbreak of Christian-Muslim violence in January, Wahid preached a gentle message of tolerance to both sides of the community. In a mosque, one man angrily asked why Wahid and his 30 million-member Nahdlatul Ulama Muslim organization has not done more to base the new government on Islam. Wahid calmly replied that he is not going to make Indonesia into an Islamic country because that was never the N.U.'s intention and other religions need to be respected. By the way, he continued, the N.U. was founded by 6,000 wise Muslim clerics...
Generators like Calpine and Duke Energy (whose stock is up more than 20% this year) that sell their power to providers outside their home base are favorites. Peco and Louisiana-based Entergy, the nation's third largest power producer, have even embraced the once imploding field of nuclear energy, seizing on it as a lucrative way to produce power for the spot market. "Nuclear was viewed as an albatross--you just tried to survive it," says J. Wayne Leonard, CEO of Entergy. Leonard is spending $4.5 billion buying up nuclear plants at garage-sale prices. So far, his strategy seems...
Hasty: One possible solution is not to tax a certain base of equity. This would help start-ups a lot. It would help emerging companies reinvest cash back into their businesses and stimulate growth. For it to work, the Federal Government and probably the state governments would have to set some sort of cap or float ceiling noting where that tax would start and how it would rise. It would probably have to vary by industry, because some businesses are more capital-intensive than others...
...PILL Don't base your decision about whether to take birth-control pills solely on this finding, but an analysis of 40 years of data shows that taking low-dose estrogen formulations nearly doubles the odds of suffering a stroke. Worse, women on high-dose estrogen face a nearly threefold increased risk. A worry to be sure, but not a big one: the odds of a stroke among women of reproduction age are tiny to begin with--about...