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...happened 2,000 years ago too." Father Thelakkat's reaction is somewhat similar. Though he doesn't deny Raphael's allegations, he refuses to acknowledge their seriousness either: "The incidents may be true, but they are isolated cases." Clearly, it's time to connect the dots and see the bigger picture...
...economists looked at companies with fewer than 50 employees, and those with more than 1,000, going back to the 1970s-a period that spanned four business cycles. They found that the bigger firms, after adjusting for their larger share of the workforce, account for a greater slice of job destruction during and after recessions-whether through layoffs or simply not hiring workers they would have otherwise. Immediately coming out of a recession, smaller companies were an unusually important source of new job growth, but once economic expansion really took hold, large companies resumed the role of job-creator, added...
...Cultural Rhythms will be both an impressive cultural exhibition and an all-around entertaining experience. “This year’s show is bigger and better than it’s ever been before,” Ayogu says...
...seem absentminded and pointless, but it actually demands a lot of the brain's processing power. You start daydreaming about a vacation, which leads you to think about potential destinations, how you would pay for the trip, whether you could get the flight upgraded, how you might score a bigger hotel room. These cognitions require what psychologists call "executive functioning" - for example, planning for the future and comparing costs and benefits...
...short, Asia's growth model resembles a vast Ponzi scheme, one that is precariously perched on the expectation that Americans will continue buying more and bigger TVs, computers and cars forever - which in turn allows Asia to forever goose its growth by adding industrial capacity to feed the West...