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...There's a personal accountability issue here. Absent something like a flood where you're actually forced out of your house I don't think it's unreasonable to think that folk should be able to last [on their own] for maybe 48, 72 hours. If you run a nursing home that is six floors high in an area with 90% humidity and 90 degrees, [should] you have an emergency generator that only lasts 10 hours? I mean, have we come to the state in this country where all of a sudden the absence of electricity is a disaster...
...million in Coca-Cola Co. stock, as well as $1.137 million in Coca-Cola subsidiaries, as of Sept. 30, 2005. Despite the University’s investments in Coca-Cola, there have been no student protests here similar to those at Michigan urging contract cancellation. Harvard was also absent from a May 2005 meeting in Washington, DC, between concerned college administrators and students and Coca-Cola executives, according to Coca-Cola spokeswoman Kari Bjorhus. A working group created after the meeting has been in collaboration with the soft drink company to develop assessment protocols of its business practices that...
...There's a personal accountability issue here. Absent something like a flood where you're actually forced out of your house I don't think it's unreasonable to think that folk should be able to last [on their own] for maybe 48, 72 hours. If you run a nursing home that is six floors high in an area with 90% humidity and 90 degrees, [should] you have an emergency generator that only lasts 10 hours? I mean, have we come to the state in this country where all of a sudden the absence of electricity is a disaster...
...What's abnormal today is how low long-term rates have remained, explained at least in part by China's and Japan's historic demand for Treasury bonds. Absent unprecedented foreign demand, Treasury bond yields likely would be well above short-term yields today-and Chicken Little would have no audience. That's not to say the yield curve won't invert again, and grow more pronounced. If it does, be warned. But we're not at the breaking point today, and may not get there for years...
...executive directive in question, among others—is technically legal or constitutional is secondary to whether it is right and in accordance with the American ideals, the American ethos. It is not. Listening to the President’s poor and inadequate defense of this disgraceful policy, noticeably absent from his touted “longest speech ever” last night, a damning charge leveled in the Declaration of Independence against another George is called to mind: “He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power...