An analysis of the effect of hurricanes on a sample of retail, energy, home building and insurance stocks shows that shares within those industries have behaved in line with the traditional strategies that were again apparent by today's market action.

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Mr. BOWEN: Well, the insurgency continues, but I'm not willing to draw a cause and effect analysis between how we're doing on the reconstruction front and the level of insurgency.

NPR: Progress, Problems in Iraq's Reconstruction Effort

We are sure of one thing: Google's lobbying expenses had no effect on the care, diligence or analysis of the agency's incredibly hardworking staff or on the decisions reached by any of the FTC's five commissioners.

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If market-share analysis can be a poor guide to the likely effect of mergers on prices, what might be put in its place?

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