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...baby boomers. So in addition to a retraining push, a sensible set of policies would shift the landscape of job creation. It would transfer money out of Wall Street and into community lending to encourage the formation of new companies. It would create local business pods in which neighbors ask, What do we do well here, and how can we do it better? Some of the world's most skilled machinists live in the American Midwest. But their skills are geared to a dying auto industry, and with no bank credit for start-ups and no way to organize, they...
...addition, Vilsack took the opportunity to ask - indeed, plead - with the media to desist forever from use of the misnomer swine flu, which has been the cause of many of the pork industry's woes. "It may seem silly," said Vilsack, "unless you're a pork producer. Then, you have to tell your family you can't afford to pay the bills because you're now selling your product for less than it cost you to produce it." (Read "Amid Swine Flu Fears, the Pork Market Falls...
...learned that he could finance a trip to five continents at about half the cost of the Oxford program, and immediately called Wang to ask if he was interested in a world tour...
Flyby agrees: it’s tough to ask students to take the condition seriously when those afflicted are called “drunkorexics...
...address could take the public's attention off the politicians (including a President whose approval ratings have been edging down) and put it back on the larger goals that Obama is trying to achieve. As a senior White House official explained a few hours before the speech, "When you ask people, 'Do you support the President's health-care plan?' you get something from [even] to slightly negative. When you describe what the President is proposing, you get solid support by a margin of 20 points or more." (Read "Can Pelosi Win Over Wary Dems on Health Care...