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...Noted "It seems quite clear now that our economy maybe never suffered a recession." PAUL O'NEILL, U.S. Treasury Secretary, who believes that the U.S. economy began expanding early enough last year to avert an actual recession...
...imperfections. Until the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 created a small city's worth of grieving families and the government established an unprecedented fund to compensate them, the mathematics of loss was a little-known science. Now the process is on garish display, and it is tempting to avert the eyes...
...Sunday), Jean Reno (The Professional , Ronin) and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos (X-Men, Dirty Work), this film depicts a future in which corporations, instead of countries, govern the people of the world. The story focuses on an extremely popular sport called Rollerball— created by executives in order to avert attention from their tyrannical control over the general populace, the show gradually becomes more and more violent as the man in charge, Alexis Petrovich (Reno), realizes that more violence means higher ratings, which, of course, means both more money and less attention paid towards the “government...
...imperfections. Until the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 created a small city's worth of grieving families and the government established an unprecedented fund to compensate them, the mathematics of loss was a little-known science. Now the process is on garish display, and it is tempting to avert the eyes...
...sure, if a child is predisposed to a clinical condition such as ADHD, even the most deft parenting won't avert the problem altogether--but it can improve things. "If children and parents work together," says developmental specialist Nancy Close of the Yale Child Study Center, "kids can be better equipped to handle whatever challenges their particular sensitivities lead them to." As with so many prevention strategies, the goal is to take control of the problem early, before the problem is the one in charge...