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...automatically lifts tax brackets and increases deductions and exemptions each year to reflect the higher cost of living and rising wages over time. Not the AMT. There have been patchwork fixes, but without an inflation adjustment, more middle-class families fall prey each year as their income simply keeps pace with costs...
...then the stock abruptly hit a wall. Just days after the company wrapped up its best year ever, with $68 million in revenues, the SEC and the Arizona attorney general announced informal investigations of the company, and Taser warned shareholders that the pace of new orders might slow down. In the first 11 days of January, Taser's shares lost nearly 60% of their value...
Glenn said he hopes that the new labs will accelerate the pace of research that could potentially slow the aging process...
...these days. Yahoo! and other search engines have been on a roll. After years of uncertainty about the business model for Internet companies, online advertising revenues have taken off. Google, the biggest search engine, booked a 118% increase in total 2004 revenue, to $3.2 billion, and Yahoo! has kept pace, jumping 120% to $3.57 billion (thanks in part to acquisitions of Inktomi and Overture). Semel's turnaround story: the once money-losing dotcom has become a thriving real-world business, with 399 million unique users this January and some $840 million in profit last year...
...Within Japan itself, Sony has always appeared a bit of a maverick: "Not a typical Japanese company," in the words of Richard Katz, editor of the Oriental Economist newsletter. Edward Lincoln, of the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C., and author of the book Arthritic Japan: The Slow Pace of Economic Reform, points out that Sony was the first Japanese company to list on the New York Stock Exchange and the first to adopt a Western-style management structure with a board that comprised insider and independent directors alike. "Sony is a global enterprise, so it was expected that...