Not only is it funny to me how fast the sentiment toward Apple has changed in the last several months, but despite that shift speculation continues to run rampant over what the next product set might be.

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And yet the majority of 401(k) account holders, I'll wager, know about the 504-point drop on Sept. 15 but have no a clue to what stocks have delivered over the long run.

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What China has that the United States lacks -- and what may give the Chinese an advantage over the long run -- is patience.

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There is considerable debate over what would make more financial sense in the long run.

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The beat of drums reaches a crescendo as Beth and Teach run down what was once the church's nave and jump over a broomstick.

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To determine why deficits are higher today than that long-run average, I decided to look at what spending and revenues will be over the next 5-10 years.

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In their version, parental ballots could be held and local-government officials would have to sack head teachers or hand schools over to be run by more successful ones, if that was what parents said they wanted.

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Those proposals include sweeping entitlement reforms across the board that over the long run would reduce federal spending by half as a percent of GDP from what it would be otherwise.

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Run a rolling pin over your calves a few times and you'll get an idea of what I was looking at.

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But assuming it does fall - and few doubt that it will - what then will be the next step of the Tamil Tiger leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran, who has run his organisation over the years with a vice-like grip?

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