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...profits fall 43% and 36%, respectively. Bennigan's went bankrupt, Ruby Tuesday will shutter 40 locations by the end of February, and more than a dozen regional chains have filed for bankruptcy. "Any time people can trade down, they're doing that," says Britt Beemer, chairman of America's Research Group, which studies consumer behavior. "If you can't afford to eat at Chili's, you'll snap up McDonald's." (Third-quarter sales for Chili's dropped 3%.) (See pictures of the recession...
...third quarter of 2008 (the company will report its fourth-quarter results on Jan. 26). McDonald's and Walmart were the only two companies in the Dow Jones industrial average whose share prices rose during 2008. Merrill Lynch, which rates McDonald's a "buy," said in a research report that the stock is "in a world...
...needs. But what people need to keep sight of is that the bigger value of science and technology to a nation is so that you can thrive as a nation going forward, so that you can thrive five years out, 10 years out, 20 years out. And investments in research and development today pay dividends on those time scales, not on the time scales of the re-election of politicians. Someone has to have foresight beyond their own election cycle...
...think the FDIC and Sheila Bair for the most part have done a pretty good job," says Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. "They haven't had great results so far, particularly with loan modifications, but they have been focused on the right things...
...gastric-bypass patients. What's more, notwithstanding the seeming cause-and-effect link between gut flora and weight, that relationship can be deceiving; a third factor entirely may be causing both - a diet of highly processed foods, for instance, suggests Dr. David Katz, director of the Yale Prevention Research Center. What's more, says Katz, "regardless of the variation of gut flora in the population, the entire population is getting heavy. So probiotics might tweak one's personal vulnerability to obesity, but they would not much move the big dial [on the obesity epidemic]." Still, as anyone fighting the numbers...