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In the wake of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis with the Soviet Union, the United States wanted Diefenbaker to accept nuclear warheads on Canadian soil.
You might have thought the biggest winner on Wall Street in the wake of the United States and China's agreement on terms for China to enter the World Trade Organization would have been the company that's been loudest in its support for Chinese entry, namely Boeing.
Well, it's as if last week never happened, as all the gains that the stock market racked up in the wake of the Fed's interest-rate hike have evaporated, and in the space of five or six days we went from being convinced that the Fed was done raising rates for the year to being almost certain that it would be back in action Oct. 5. The truth is, who really knows?
These are blessings and curses he wrote on charred or otherwise manipulated bits of paper and sent to friends, enemies, and a few public figures (Hitler, for one) in the late 1930s, in the wake of a disastrous trip he took to Ireland, wielding a cane that he believed was the staff of Saint Patrick, from which he returned in a straitjacket.
In the wake of last week's shootings at two day trading firms in Atlanta, a spokesman for one of the companies said that these firms did a good job of warning prospective clients of the risks day trading entails and added that if clients followed the rules the company laid out, day trading was both easy and profitable.