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...Gore campaign inches ever closer to their obvious aim--to keep counting until the Vice President is ahead and then declare victory and call a halt to the whole business--the Bush campaign is giving signs of succumbing to the same hallucinogenic haze of ambition that has clouded the mind of the Prince of Tennessee. The Bush camp's decision to file a lawsuit to halt the hand recount in a few heavily Democratic Florida counties may be necessary, but the hints of a hard-line strategy emanating from Austin--in which close states like Iowa and Wisconsin would...
...here it is: Election Day 2000. At long last, the seemingly incessant drone of television and radio ads will grind to a halt. The maddening phone calls will come to an end. Red, white and blue balloon sales will drop precipitously...
...roadside, juggling rocks. They had stoned the red-and-white No. 25 a few days before and injured an Israeli woman. As soon as the first stone shattered one of the bus' windows, the bus pulled up and the passengers jumped out. The Peugeots screeched to a halt, and the "Arabs" inside leaped out with pistols drawn. The stunned rock throwers tried to flee, but nine were captured. They were the latest arrests by the Jerusalem police's undercover moustarabine unit...
...side, though, that stuff is still catnip for Alan Greeenspan, and lower interest rates is what America's big companies crave. So as the economy slows down - without screeching to a halt, of course - blue-chip investors like their chances for a bullish winter and spring, and Dow 13,000 has been bandied about rather credibly lately...
...Greenspan may even cut by a quarter point, which brings us to the flip side of the equation. What if the "soft landing" is a skidding halt? The markets, having just gotten hard evidence of the slowdown they've been waiting for, may find that next week is an excellent time for those doubts to start cropping up. What's ailing the markets these days is uncertainty - over oil prices, the Middle East, the election, you name it. After November, oil prices, with their power to cause not only stagnation but also inflation and political meddling, will likely...