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...rise in the dual nature of data is where the analyst's ability to forecast gets more difficult. When unemployment, consumer confidence, GDP, manufacturing, and capital expenditures are all falling simultaneously, it is hard to find optimists, but they will grab even the slightest bit of ambiguous information and claim that the recovery is underway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Housing Mirage: Misleading Numbers | 3/24/2009 | See Source »

...market run-up is working on the same dynamics as a hydrofoil. A small bit of news which may be good is lifting the larger market well above the chop. (See pictures of the Top 10 scared traders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Market Rally Is Like Waiting for Godot | 3/24/2009 | See Source »

...team needed to step back and reassess the situation,” Bock said. “We had a team meeting and problem-solved a little bit. We really just worked on our timing and we knew we needed a lot more hits and our bats really came alive [on Sunday...

Author: By Lucy D. Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: WEB UPDATE: Crimson Rallies to Win Highlander Classic | 3/24/2009 | See Source »

...blood and body fluids are going to seep out down into the property all the way to the foundation, so you're talking through the carpet, the padding, the floor and whatever else. If that's the case, we've got to go in, get structural cleanup, every last bit of contamination. Then we issue a certificate when we're done so they can have confidence that things were done the right way and perhaps resume living at the residence or have confidence selling it or renting out the room again. That's the physical side, and that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cleaning Up Death at War — and at Home | 3/24/2009 | See Source »

...claim that if you scratch the top part of a CD, where the label is, it's actually worse than if you scratch the bottom. Yes, it's surprising, isn't it? The laser looks through the clear bit, so we assume that's the delicate side. But actually, because of the way they're made - you start off with this lump of clear plastic and then you stick the foil on it, and then you stick a label on top of that - it's much thinner on the label side than it is on the other side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why S___ Happens | 3/23/2009 | See Source »

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