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...Scrabble was conceived during the Great Depression by an unemployed New York architect named Alfred Mosher Butts, who figured Americans could use a bit of distraction during the bleak economic times. After determining what he believed were the most enduring games in history - board games, numbers games like dice or cards and letter games like crossword puzzles - he combined all three. He then chose the frequency and the distribution of the tiles by counting letters on the pages of the New York Times, the New York Herald Tribune and The Saturday Evening Post. For more than a decade he tweaked...
...pension crisis will likely aggravate an already bleak financial outlook for many companies, and may stimulate a debate about retirement policy in this country. Already, President-elect Barack Obama has moved swiftly to address the worsening economic and financial crisis. Now, a key question is how, or if, President-elect Obama delivers on his campaign proposal to require companies that don't offer employee retirement plans to enroll workers in a direct-deposit IRA account, which may help many low- and middle-income people participate in retirement programs for the first time. "You can't have companies going from...
...political message, Morris and music director David H. Miller ’11 decided to include a deleted song, “Fold Your Flapping Wings.” Infrequently performed, the song was cut early in the show’s initial run because reviewers found it too bleak for a light comic operetta. “In today’s cultural climate, a song being too dark is not a good reason to not do it,” Morris says. “The song emphasizes the more serious side and the social commentary...
...This bleak outlook could get even worse, at least in the short term, if GM, Ford or Chrysler went bust. That's because of a domino effect that would probably result in the subsequent failures of parts suppliers that also sell to factories operated by Toyota, Honda and Nissan in the U.S. Vehicles built on American soil accounted for 63% of Japan's total U.S. sales in 2007, according to the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association. A sudden parts shortage could force companies to shut down some of those assembly lines, generating major losses...
Iceland knows a bit about kicking the fossil-fuel habit. At the turn of the last century, life on the isolated island was bleak. It had been among the poorest nations in Europe for centuries, and a smoky haze choked Reykjavik, thanks to the coal inhabitants burned during the interminable winters. In the 1930s, Icelandic engineers successfully diverted underground water to heat an elementary school, and the rest of the capital slowly followed suit. When the global oil crisis hit in the 1970s, efforts to turn this local resource into electricity - by drilling holes into underground heat pockets and reservoirs...