Word: weekends
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...attributed to the defective tires and the number of injuries to 250. Meanwhile, Firestone's voluntary recall has so far replaced only close to 2 million of the 6.5 million defective tires that it believes are out there. There may be more. Just as Americans started their Labor Day weekend getaways, NHTSA warned that an additional 1.4 million Firestone tires - manufactured primarily at the Decatur, Ill., plant, where most of the recalled tires were made - may be even more susceptible to the same kind of deadly tread separation. Most of the tires were sold as replacements for some Ford, Chevy...
Then it was off to a visit to a legal-aid center, a quick walkabout among the people, then back on Air Force One for a scheduled 1 a.m. arrival in Washington. Next up, vetoing a Republican tax cut, spending Labor Day weekend in upstate New York, new home to a certain Senatorial candidate, then another set of meetings with more foreign leaders next week...
...word is the old-school suits over there will hold out for an extremely dignified deal). Intel, Cisco Systems and Oracle drove NASDAQ, basically because they're the best bets in a rather shaky tech sector, and investors like to have their portfolios nice and fat before the long weekend...
...Johnson says he's "pretty much full blast" again after the injury and plans to compete three times before the Games. What returned this 32-year-old so quickly to fine fettle? A regimen of deep-tissue massage and other therapy that is much different from what weekend warriors might do to cure a muscle: "For a week I had ultrasound two or three times a day, then I'm sitting on a table with someone digging into a muscle that's already sore as hell, breaking up fluid that's in there from the trauma. Not much...
...TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll taken this weekend showed Bush leading Gore 46 percent to 45 percent among likely voters, as opposed to Gore leading Bush 47 percent to 46 percent a week ago. Newsweek's poll (which Gore was quoting for months this spring when it was the only one that gave him a chance) now finds the veep ahead 46 percent to 42 percent. By some calculations, the election's just getting warmed up. Voters at large generally don't pay much close attention to the presidential race until after the conventions - which is now. On the other hand, the candidate...