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...headed back toward the low pre-1995 productivity trend. The country's other most prominent productivity guru, Harvard's Dale Jorgenson, is more sanguine. He sees large swaths of the economy - health care, education, government - still waiting to be transformed by information technology and expects that to bring us another decade of high productivity growth. We'll have to wait and see who's right. In the meantime, if we average their latest projections, we get productivity growth of just over 2%, which...
...What would be least awkward to bring on a date...
...helped leftist governments throughout Latin America, mobilized his army against U.S. ally Colombia over a petty issue, and cursed at the American ambassador before expelling him from the country as “retaliation” for alleged US intentions to bring down Evo Morales’s leftist government in Bolivia. Most recently, he has been all over Russian weapons and energy deals: So cheerful was he about the first joint military exercises treaty that he announced on his weekly TV show that he would fly one of the Russian jets himself...
...Meanwhile, other activists are taking similar steps. The NAACP has launched "Arrive With Five," a campaign encouraging its members to bring five friends to polling stations. In predominately black Cleveland, Basheer Jones, 23, is bringing voting-rights experts on his popular morning radio show to puncture the assumption that ex-felons can't vote. He is also promoting a rally and parties sponsored by black fraternities intended to get black Ohioans to vote early; the price of admission is a sticker proving that you voted. "We don't want anybody to have a reason to not vote," he says...
...Aubrey Jewett, who also resides in Feeney's district, said the ad could backfire as otherwise unengaged voters get clued in. "If they had asked me, I would have suggested not to run it," Jewett said. "It's hard to say exactly how it will pan out. It did bring the scandal to more people's attention." Georgetown linguistics professor Deborah Tannen, author of The Argument Culture: Stopping America's War of Words, says political apologies are rarely perceived as genuine, leaving in question their impact...