Word: concerningly
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...Where is the global economy heading from here? My concern right now is that this U-shaped recession we are in could turn into something much uglier, meaning a Japanese-style L-shaped recession. We're in the worst global synchronized recession in the last 60 years. Unless we take the right policy actions, we'll end up in a near depression. I did not want to use that term six months ago. At that time, I said the chances of a near depression were only 10%. But today those chances are 33% or so. (Read "25 People to Blame...
...good news out there? Honestly, as of now, I don't see any. Policy is moving in the right direction. My concern is this is too little, too late...
...Hathaway's shareholders, one can't avoid being struck by his faith in the ability of the American people to overcome adversity and to move the nation forward. This is a legacy that stretches from the Revolution to Lewis and Clark on to GI Joe. Despite Buffett's grave concern about the state of the economy now and in the immediate future one of the most striking passages in his letter is "America's best days lie ahead." The same sentence might have been written into the President's address to a joint session of Congress last week...
...this is a promising development, the revisions do not go far enough. The United States owes a debt of obligation to both its soldiers and its citizens to universally allow caskets to be photographed by the media. These types of bans arise more out of political considerations than a concern for the honor of the dead. During the Vietnam War, photographs of military caskets proved politically dangerous to war supporters as they allowed the public to view and understand the mortal realities of combat. According to USA Today, the term “Dover Test...
...head of the genetics department at the Harvard Medical School, Clifford J. Tabin—who received $50,000 last spring to study evolutionary changes in skin appendages like hair and nails—called the decrease in non-federal funding for the sciences “a concern, especially for young researchers starting out and for mid-level faculty who need to keep their momentum...