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Still, by publishing the results at such an early stage--and, perhaps more important, by ballyhooing them in the popular press--the company may have shot itself in the foot. The blast of publicity may win ACT bragging rights and pull in much needed investment to fuel the company's research. But if the hoopla triggers a harsh anticloning backlash, it might dash whatever hopes ACT had of actually saving lives...
...resumes--one co-wrote Can't Buy Me Love, the other co-wrote (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction--and both have kept in practice as working musicians over the years. While Mick's new tranquillity gets old fast, it turns out that Paul actually has the grit to pull...
...steel consumers and ordinary shoppers don't have the pull in Washington that Big Steel does (though you'd think they'd get a little more consideration in the middle of a recession), and it does look like the White House or Congress is going to have to fork over something to protect their political hides. Is there a way to balance America's values of free markets, free trade and competitive pricing with the patriotic nostalgia of the time when U.S. Steel was the industrial soul of an industrial nation...
...shoe problem of cheaper Nissans made with cheaper foreign steel needing tariffs of their own to spare GM. It ain't quotas - raising product prices to prop up commodity prices is not a smart way to grow an economy in which services are 80 percent of GDP and consumers pull 66 percent of the economic weight. And Paul O'Neill going to Japan and telling them to shut down two plants so two can live in West Virginia? A superpower that believes in its own American Way doesn't go strong-arming for charity...
...biopic that covers the decade from the 1964 championship to the “Rumble in the Jungle” with George Foreman in 1974. Mann’s stylings aside, the real test of Ali’s worth will be whether or not Smith can pull it off. Perennially thought to be underestimated, Smith’s demeanor seems appropriate, but his past performances (think Wild, Wild West) do not elucidate remembrances of conviction or effectiveness. Regardless, Mann’s psychotically controlled direction and careful writing are sure to pick up the potential slack. It?...