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Since then, 24 state legislatures have passed laws limiting the government's ability to appropriate land for privately financed projects, and similar measures will be on 11 state ballots next week. Three of those initiatives, plus a fourth measure unrelated to eminent domain, would go even further--forcing governments to...
Skeptics who ridicule fears over pesticide exposure are mum on the question of environmental degradation. Pesticides sprayed over sprawling corn fields in the Midwest do not magically disappear. Neither do nitrates from chemical fertilizers. They linger in the soil, and then seep into the water supply. Costs of treating water...
In addition to being less generous, businesses are being less paternal too, forcing workers to be more accountable for spending, a practice called consumer-driven health care. One immediate change has been a move away from fixed co-payments for such medical expenses as doctor visits and prescription drugs. That...
There's a bolt of pathos in that tale, but in truth it was accessible design that made the name famous. "Tahari's success comes from the fact that the look is not too fashion forward and not too conservative," says Dana Telsey, CEO of Telsey Advisory Group (TAG), an...
But where is all the money coming from to buy, and do we have enough of it? According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, we earned average after-tax incomes of about $22,000 per person in 2004 and spent about $17,000 per person. That means Americans save...