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...Like Father, Like Daughter? Not if I Can Help It Those of us physicians who feel the heavy bureaucratic burden of medicine are much less likely to encourage our children to follow in our footsteps
...never recovered. A poll conducted for TIME just before the general election in May 2005 found that 51% of British people surveyed considered him dishonest; he was the most unpopular Prime Minister ever to be re-elected. Moreover, his skill in selling the war has only added to the burden he must bear for the mess in Iraq that continues to get worse despite three years of U.S. and British occupation. According to a poll released yesterday by the German Marshall Fund of the United States, British support for American leadership in foreign affairs has never been lower - a policy...
...Continued advances in medical science meant that more and more people were living as long as a century--good news for the likes of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who celebrated his 100th birthday in 2031. But the rising proportion of the population in retirement imposed an ever higher tax burden on those still working. It also placed a sustained strain on the U.S. balance of payments, as the country consistently imported more than it exported, financing the difference by selling securities to foreigners...
...Like Father, Like Daughter? Not if I Can Help It Those of us physicians who feel the heavy bureaucratic burden of medicine are much less likely to encourage our children to follow in our footsteps
...fine for requesting service, along with eight other black students, at a whites-only lunch counter in South Carolina, and opted instead to serve 30 days of hard labor in prison; in Rock Hill, South Carolina. What was dubbed the "jail, no bail" tactic relieved activists of financial burden and inspired similar protests. "I guess if we had to do it today ... we'd do it again," he said in 2001. DIED. Yasuo Takei, 76, founder and former chairman of consumer-credit company Takefuji and Japan's second-richest man; in Tokyo. Takei, worth an estimated $5.6 billion, started Takefuji...