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Meanwhile, the squad’s lone true lefty has made great strides during practice, according to Walsh, and should be a major contributor in situations where left-handed pitching is critical...
...might seem like a killjoy. After all, China at the moment is the star on the world economic stage. The country's soaring need for a host of goods, especially commodities such as oil, iron ore and aluminum, is a major contributor to global economic recovery. China is poised this year to pass Japan as the world's third largest importer. But the government needs to keep the economy superheated just to provide jobs for the 12 million to 15 million people coming into its labor market every year. That means finding ever larger markets--both internal and overseas...
...people for this book--waitresses, shelf stockers, farm laborers, plus the social workers, union organizers and job trainers around them and the employers who take them on, not all of whom are crocodiles. His book lacks the first-person focus and angry wit of Nickel and Dimed, TIME contributor Barbara Ehrenreich's account of her attempts to get by on $6 or $7 an hour. But poverty is in the details, and he lays those out in abundance...
...great national purpose of "reinventing and revitalizing our democracy." That he did so before the supreme policymaking body of his party was incongruous, given that Labor's power bloc is far from ready to relinquish its traditional role. He identified too much campaign spinning and stage management as a contributor to public cynicism, but did not include his own past intemperance. Latham, a career politician, is campaigning on trust. Having said he will tear down the old politics, he will be judged on his readiness to share power and tell it straight. It took no time for Howard to accuse...
...over the years, many students identify problems with their fellow peers—and not their own lack of initiative—as the culprit of their love life deficiency. A Crimson article published in 1993 cited Harvard women’s less than perfect presentation as a significant contributor to the problem. “Harvard men see a pretty wide cross-section of the Harvard female population. But when they watch Florida State football games on T.V., cameras focus on cute, frosted-blond cheerleaders…because of varying degrees of concern with fitness and physical appearance, schools...