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...While these improvements may appear modest, sophomore distance runner Dan Chenoweth showed optimism for the results...
...tenure in office was marked by the rapid proliferation of no-bid contracts between the Pentagon and numerous defense contractors; the result was an ugly mess of a procurement program that failed to achieve any noteworthy successes. The Rumsfeldian fracas over up-armored Humvees—which failed to appear in any appreciable quantity in the Iraqi theater of operations until more than four years after the beginning of combat operations—is just one example of how poor management and lenient oversight at the Pentagon have cost the American military millions of dollars and thousands of unnecessary casualties...
...plummet as demand for China's toys, blue jeans and TV sets dries up in the United States. In January, exports plunged 17.5% from the same month a year earlier. Nor are the more negative convinced that the better data coming out of China are as meaningful as they appear. Take, for example, the record level of loans, which some argue won't stimulate growth as much as expected. There are signs that some borrowers, for example, are trying to turn a quick profit by capitalizing on differentials in interest rates. The loan growth may also not be sustainable...
...Economist Jim Walker of Asianomics, an independent research firm in Hong Kong, argues that what appear to be signs of recovery in China are in fact indications that the country might be headed for long-term problems. Walker believes that Chinese policymakers aren't allowing the economy's excessive and unnecessary industrial capacity to die off naturally, keeping alive sick companies that could drag down the economy in the future. "By throwing money into the economy ... Beijing is running the risk of turning a nasty cyclical downturn into a structural problem that will take years to unwind," Walker writes. "Beijing...
...even though "a lot of people have died, and those people were Kadyrov's opponents." He says, "Kadyrov has made it clear on several occasions that he is not responsible, and maybe directly he isn't, but his supporters do have his interests at heart." Some of the crimes appear to be examples of the Caucasus' tradition of blood revenge, where a relative of an enemy is as much a target as the enemy himself - a tradition that may have been brought over to Moscow by the Chechen diaspora. "You have to understand that Chechnya is Chechnya...