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...leaf blower on a Saturday morning is an annoyance, [but] I think the economic challenges before us in a long-term sense are much greater,” he says...
...Arroyo's critics, the timing of the pardon is suspect. The day before it was announced, a whistle-blower testifying in the Senate about the telecom deal alleged that her husband, Jose Miguel "Mike" Arroyo, was supposed to get $70 million in kickbacks from the now-canceled contract. (He has denied it). For Arroyo, this is an opportune time to change the subject...
Since that long boom ended in 2001, though, griping and whining have been ascendant. Greenspan was a bubble blower, the main criticism goes, a man whose lax monetary policies encouraged excess and speculation. What's more, he failed to thwart George W. Bush's demolition of the budget surpluses built up in the Clinton years. These complaints were steadily gaining in volume, thanks to the collapse of a mortgage-lending boom that began on Greenspan's watch, when the man jumped into the fray in mid-September with The Age of Turbulence, a new book about his life...
...avoid that,’” Tofler said. On a two-year leave of absence, Muller serves as president of InfraReDx, a Burlington, Mass., company focused on developing coronary devices. In the article, Tofler and Muller propose strategies to lower risks, including paying for a snow-blower service instead of sweating yourself and avoiding fights with neighbors. But that’s not to say they’re recommending an end to exertion entirely. “People shouldn’t avoid these activities completely, because it’s a part of daily life...
...lab’s scientists emerge relatively unscathed. Sandy, who rushed to publish the results of Cliff’s study without independently verifying them, becomes an administrator at a private clinic. Robin, the whistle blower, goes on to work with one of the lab’s rivals. And Cliff, whose suspect research methods received such bad press throughout the entire ordeal, apparently has “a possibility in Utah...