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| Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:00:00 EST A Capital View |
| Mired in Memphis |
| Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:00:00 EST A method to Wall Street's March Madness |
| Is irrational exuberance back? The Dow Jones industrial average has risen 50 percent in the past three years and is now about 500 points, or less than 5 percent, below its all-time bubble-inflated high of 11,723. The Standard & Poor's 500 is up more than 60 percent and is also trading at a five-year-high range. It's now only about 200 points below its March 2000 peak of 1,527. |
| Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:00:00 EST Bootstrapping a start-up business |
| This week's issue of U.S.News & World Report features an article on "bootstrapping" a small business—launching a start-up with little or no money. And certainly no venture capital. For some further insights into the topic, I chatted via E-mail with entrepreneur and futurist Thomas Frey of the Da Vinci Institute, a business and technology think tank. |
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| Tue, 21 Mar 2006 23:35:40 GMT Bush: Troops to Stay in Iraq for Years
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AP - President Bush said Tuesday that American forces will remain in Iraq for years and it will be up to a future president to decide when to bring them all home. But defying critics and plunging polls, he declared, "I'm optimistic we'll succeed. If not, I'd pull our troops out."
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| Tue, 21 Mar 2006 23:34:52 GMT Gunmen Kill 20 in Breakout at Iraqi Jail
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AP - About 100 masked gunmen stormed a prison near the Iranian border Tuesday, cutting phone wires, freeing all the inmates and leaving behind a scene of devastation and carnage — 20 dead policemen, burned-out cars and a smoldering jailhouse.
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| Tue, 21 Mar 2006 23:32:52 GMT Missing Ore. Family Members Found Alive
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| AP - Six family members missing in a recreational vehicle since March 4 were found alive Tuesday in a remote, snowy section of Southern Oregon, authorities said. |
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