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...managers and traders did make a lot of money for their companies and would argue that these employees should not be responsible for the problems of the failing financial industry. CEOs have said that talented people who don't get paid well will leave. That is a good argument but it should have been clear, even then, that there would be nowhere for these highly paid people...
Beginning on Tuesday, Sumwalt will lead four days of hearings in Washington into the medical-helicopter industry, the longest inquiry in the board's history. The hearings will be the title fight in a long-simmering argument over medical-helicopter crashes and how to prevent them. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which has sole power to regulate helicopter flight, and the Association of Air Medical Services, the industry's main trade group, maintain that most accidents have nothing in common, making it difficult for the FAA to impose tough safety rules. "Each accident has a different set of facts that...
More than anything else, say his peers, Summers is a ferocious debater, capable of unpacking four or five contradictory theories at the same time. "To have an argument with Larry Summers is a little like being run over by a tank with a Lotus engine and to find the experience educational," says Strobe Talbott, president of the Brookings Institution. Such pastimes may come naturally to the first son of two noted economists who was born in New Haven, Conn., in the shadow of Yale, and grew up in Philadelphia not far from the University of Pennsylvania. Not only...
Michael Kinsley's essay "God Is Black" made a strong argument that the presence and voices of James Earl Jones and Morgan Freeman have influenced how America hears the voice of truth and authority [Jan. 26]. But there were others who set the stage. We cannot ignore the influence of Southern-raised black televangelists. And even more so, James Weldon Johnson's famous poem "The Creation," which is written in the black idiom: And God stepped out on space, And he looked around and said: I'm lonely-- I'll make me a world. Paul Moore, NORTH SAN JUAN, CALIF...
...them geared toward job creation or immediate economic benefits. But supporters of the Medicaid provision argue that it would have resulted in lower health-care costs and therefore rightfully belonged in the stimulus package as a cost-cutting measure. Whether or not you agree with that argument, numerous studies have shown that investments in preventative care save money in the long run. The Guttmacher Institute, which advocates for abortion rights, estimates that every dollar of publicly funded family-planning services saves $4 in state and federal dollars. And when the Congressional Budget Office looked at a very similar provision...