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Those looking to Washington for guidance may be disappointed. As the sordid spectacle of the budget battle and the midterm elections showed, there is still no will in the capital to make hard economic decisions. "How do they ever expect our kids to pay that $3.3 trillion debt?" worries Tom Tenner, a retired appliance-company executive in Houston. "No one seems to care or give a damn. They feel we can borrow forever." Still, the capital is not immune to the jitters. Washington caterers say that guest lists are smaller and there are more lunches than dinners, more wine than...
...hope that "if you shoot enough bullets into the woods, a deer will run into one." He answered an ad in the Wall Street Journal for a corporate financial officer last September and waited months for a response. "As people are scared, they are taking longer to make decisions," he said. That is true, a company official agreed, but the delay also had to do with the fact that the one-day, one-time ad generated 2,500 responses...
Those laid off from manufacturing jobs face even harder struggles in an age of weak unions, flimsy safety nets and cutthroat competition from overseas. "The people who used to scrimp by are just not making it today," laments Jodie Goodwin, who heads a group of Houston social-action church coalitions. "Families that never were at risk before are having to make basic, tough - decisions about which bill to pay: utilities, groceries or rent...
Even if they are not planning to sell, homeowners feel poorer when values drop. "The price of your house was your standard of value in the 1970s," says Kathryn Eickhoff, president of her own economics-research firm in New York. "You couldn't make money in the stock market, but you knew your house would go up in value. But now that confidence is being tested, and people feel vulnerable...
Best Imitation of the Fountain of Youth You say you're getting old and run down? Well, step right up and try some human-growth hormone. Normally it's used to treat dwarfism, but tests have shown that in elderly men it can reduce fat, restore muscle tone and make the body look 20 years younger. And all for $14,000 a year, plus the possibility of a few serious side effects...