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...think tank Monday estimates that the cost of the package as a whole will rise to almost $100 billion a year by 2020. Open Europe Research Director Hugo Robinson said the climate change plan "comes at exactly the wrong time for hard-pressed families all around Europe," and "will channel money towards very expensive and inefficient means of reducing CO2 emissions, imposing unnecessarily high costs on people struggling through already tough economic conditions...
...first morning of the Democratic National Convention, all the cable-news outfits were yakking about what Hillary Clinton might say--except one. On C-SPAN? Empty chairs on a silent stage. It was waiting for someone to show up and actually say something. This was the only channel on which a citizen could watch all the convention speeches. Plus, it airs Prime Minister's Questions, my all-time-favorite sitcom. (No offense, Larry David...
Move away from London, however, and you get a rather different perspective. Across the English Channel, Thierry Jacquillat, chairman of the Greater Paris Investment Agency, looks at what's happening in world financial markets and says: "The economy of Paris will resist the shock better than London. We're more diversified." And in Brussels, at the European Trade Union Institute, economist Andrew Watt draws some uncomfortable historical parallels. "There was some idea that the financial sector was immune," he says. "It's like pinning your hopes on anything, whether it's textiles in the north of England...
...nagging issues: the Federal Communications Commission has castigated Comcast for shortchanging some broadband customers when it comes to delivering the service they pay for. The National Football League has long been sparring in and out of court with the company for not carrying the NFL Network as a basic channel. Also, subscribers have been furious about weak customer service despite robust cable bills, which, industry-wide, have risen at twice the rate of inflation since...
...when we came in, we got a lot of direction from upperclassmen,” goalkeeper Connolly said. “We’re trying to continue that tradition of being a resource out of the pool, while helping to channel enthusiasm that [the younger guys] come in with. That’s our overarching goal...