The message is upbeat, with Judson floating the idea of taking the company private, while batting away concerns over shrinking cash flow to service debt.

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As the honcho of New York, Bloomberg certainly has some vested interest in batting populist rage away from Wall Street toward Congress.

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"I'm seeing more and more people not even batting an eye about going away alone for a couple of weeks, " says Iris Krasnow, who, as author of "The Secret Lives of Wives, " interviewed more than 200 women about their marriages.

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