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...province. From there, they telephoned their families to tell them they were going across the border, to Dharamsala in India, to see the Dalai Lama and get an education. The families were worried - in addition to the risk of being caught fleeing Tibet, the boys faced an even more arduous, monthlong trek through innumerable snow-covered passes. Each was barely out of his teens and had paid 3,000 yuan (about $440) to a "guide" to take them to Nepal, where they would be received by the Refugee Reception Centre run by the Tibetan government-in-exile...
...Great Depression and one was in the middle of the Depression era, in 1937. And the other four were outside of that era. When you look at those, what you find out is, off the low of every one of those you had a violent recovery. Not a slow, arduous crawl higher, but a violent recovery...
...didn't finally bottom until 1932 after falling 90%. However, from its low in 1932, it went up 300% within one year. So, here's my point. The feeling I get all over Wall Street is that even if we recover from this, it will be a slow and arduous process. It'll take a long time. But history would suggest just the opposite. (See pictures of the stock market crash...
...University President Abbott Lawrence Lowell, who presided over the ceremonies, wrote in his invitation to Roosevelt, “[W]e hope you will choose for your theme for a brief address something connected with Harvard... and feel that you would welcome this opportunity to divorce yourself from the arduous demands of politics and political speechmaking.” The note ended with a request for Roosevelt to keep his comments to less than 10 minutes...
...though it will be an expensive, arduous process to determine so many products’ carbon footprints, this is the clear next step in fighting pollution and climate change. Remember the fights between Bud Light and Miller Lite over calorie counts? Imagine if their advertising slogan were applied to the environment: “More taste, less carbon...