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...bargain must be struck, swapping an increase in general teacher salaries for stricter standards on how well teachers must perform to keep their post. The NEA is violently opposed to any threats to traditional job security, but like any other lobby can be paid off. Democrats should propose extra pay for teachers in underserved areas. Higher wages overall will help ensure a bargain and improve the prestige of the profession. Teacher’s should receive more benefits, but not without more responsibilities...
...reality we consume food—particularly red meat—at bargain prices, if you consider the negative externalities involved in its journey from pasture to plate. Imagine that quarter-pound of brisket you ate last night: a widely quoted recent study in the Animal Science Journal shows that the carbon footprint of that beef is 4.11 kilograms, the amount released in about ten miles of driving in an average American car. What if you and thousands of others at Harvard took just a tenth of a pound more brisket than you managed to eat—you might...
...firefight has broken out over the size of the Pentagon's 2009 budget request. Defense Secretary Robert Gates argues that his $515.4 billion budget - 3.4% of the nation's gross domestic product - is a bargain by historic standards. "To give you some basis of comparison in terms of the last times we were at war," he explained, "during the Korean War the percentage of GDP going to defense was about 14%, and during Vietnam it was about 9%." But critics, using a different yardstick, found the Pentagon's request historically high. The New York Times editorial page said Tuesday that...
...bargain or a burden? The nation certainly doesn't feel as if it's engaged in a major war. Nothing is rationed, there are relatively few casualties, and the entire burden of waging the conflict falls on the shoulders of the 1% of Americans that serve in the professional military...
...trading Tuesday. The feasibility of a BNP offer - or hostile raid - further increased on Wednesday, when it announced 2007 profits of over $11 billion. But BNP is hardly the only player contemplating exploiting Société Générale's troubles to acquire it at a bargain price. French bank Crédit Agricole is also reportedly studying a take-over bid, as are Italian rivals UniCredit, Anglo-Chinese HSBC, along with a few others...