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...worst job recovery our country has had since the 1930s," says Gene Sperling, an economic adviser to Kerry. "Most Americans have a higher standard for economic growth." Republicans say Democrats are ignoring all the hopeful signs. "What you've got is folks who are searching for negative statistics," says Ken Mehlman, the Bush-Cheney campaign manager...
...stands out as a particularly bad day for Ken Lay. As word circulated that the energy giant he founded was under investigation for balance-sheet shenanigans, the CEO tried to pull Enron's stock out of a tailspin by arranging a special conference call with analysts. "We're not trying to conceal anything," he told them. "I'm disclosing everything we've found." After Lay got off the phone, he gathered Enron's thousands of employees via a live webcast and video teleconference, and tried to reassure them too. "Our liquidity is fine," he said of the company that...
ENRON AGAIN The case against former CEO Ken Lay: How much did he know about his company's book-cooking schemes...
With surf forecasting in place and the new tow-in technique being steadily refined, the records have started to pile up: in 1998 Ken Bradshaw from Sunset Beach in Hawaii rode the first wave over 60 ft.; in 2002 Brazilian Carlos Burle surfed a 68-ft. swell; and this year Cabrinha reached the 70-ft. threshold. Sharp says storm patterns have been relatively subdued in the past few years, but he thinks that when the next El Nino warming of the Pacific happens, adding 20% to 30% to the power of storms likely to impact prime surfing sites, surfers will...
...BUSINESS ENRON: How much did Ken Lay know about his company's fraud...