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While officials, pundits and the everyday folks who have to pay bills lament unemployment rates that won't go down and wages that won't go up, some Rust Belt planners and union leaders are feeling optimistic: they're taking inspiration from the Basque region of Spain, where a network of worker-owned cooperatives launched amid the rubble of the Spanish Civil War has grown to become the country's seventh-largest corporation, and among its most profitable...
...argument at a family barbecue. His mother raised him in a mobile home dragged into the woods on the island's South End, which, as local writer and stained-glass artist Jack Archibald says, has "basically one main road, a two-lane blacktop that loops around like a belt on a skinny fella...
...national romance with consumer debt seems to be coming, at least for now, to a screeching halt because of the realities of the Great Recession. Belt-tightening, whether it's imposed by job loss or financial insecurity, is de rigueur. The savings rate is 4.4%, up from its 2007 rock-bottom level. Book publishers are hurrying to catch up with the rediscovered restraint. Three authors with new books are eager to restore fiscal conservatism to its proper, vaunted role. Being thrifty has become a badge of honor...
...accusations, the tactics worked. Fukuda, for example, handily defeated LDP incumbent Fumio Kyuma, a former Defense Minister and nine-term parliamentarian. Yet, despite her lack of on-the-job experience, she and other Ozawa princesses are not political novices. A former psychology student who holds a black belt in karate, Fukuda at age 23 became a health care activist after discovering she was infected with the hepatitis virus by a contaminated blood transfusion she received as a newborn. She was just one of thousands of Japanese who received contaminated clotting agents in blood in the 1970s, '80s and '90s, which...
...This meet definitely met our expectations in terms of getting a first competition under our belt,” Saretsky said. “[It’s important] especially for the freshmen, just to get a taste of what college track and field is all about...