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...Tunhammar, director general of the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise, says that if the country votes no, the Swedish krona will weaken, interest rates will rise and the country will have to adopt structural reforms to compete in Europe. While most businessmen share this view, some important voices have spoken out against it. Rune Andersson, chairman of the board of Electrolux, the giant producer of washing machines and dishwashers that is Sweden's fourth-largest business, says he favors keeping an independent krona and central bank for Sweden, even though the company loses out when export receipts are converted back from...
Barlett and Steele documented decades of U.S. government policies that only made our energy problems worse, and yet their solution is for Washington to adopt a long-term "thoughtful energy policy." Let's not continue to do what doesn't work. A better approach is to let individuals and organizations do what makes sense to them and let America's energy policy come from the bottom up. The government should fund basic research but not try to promote specific types of new technologies. When they are ready for commercialization, they will come to market. Our goal should...
...want no resources or people spared in this effort, either inside the CIA or the community." But there is little evidence that Tenet shared this declaration with other government agencies. At the National Security Council, top terrorist hunter Richard Clarke was also on a quest to adopt an all-out action plan against bin Laden, and in 2001 he urged the new Administration to do so. But the Bush team slow-walked its strategy through an interagency review for seven months...
Laura L. Krug ’06, a Crimson editor, is an English concentrator in Dunster House. She’ll spend much of her summer on the road between Cambridge and New York, wishing Fung Wah would adopt a frequent miles program—with upgrades to a much-needed first-class section...
...CREATED PROBLEMS AT THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT BY JOKINGLY REFERRING TO A GERMAN MEMBER AS "PERFECT" FOR THE ROLE OF A NAZI PRISON GUARD. HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT TO ADOPT A MORE CAUTIOUS APPROACH...