Investors, concerned the budget stalemate in Washington could prompt the Federal Reserve to delay lowering interest rates until next year, dumped technology, financial and economically sensitive issues for shares of consumer-products companies, which have steady earnings regardless of cyclical swings in the economy.
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The cyclical swings in public backing for the death penalty reflect the intense ambivalence Americans feel toward it, said Anthony Amsterdam, a New York University law professor who for 35 years has been a leading capital defense lawyer and who argued the case before the Supreme Court that led to the ban in 1972.
