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Article: The Orlando Sentinel, Fla., Susan Strother Clarke Column.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- March 19, 2003
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By Susan Strother Clarke, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Mar. 19--Can we please just get on with it? That, paraphrased and simplified a bit, is the cry heard in business circles this week as the likelihood of war in the Middle East increases and black clouds hang even lower over balance sheets.
It's not that business owners want armed conflict or its grim aftermath delivered to their doorsteps in body bags.
But what they do want is movement, any movement, to end the months of uncertainty. They have been worn to a nub from fear -- not fear of terrorism, but of adding a new sales person, expanding the factory ...