Word: dependability
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...watch their kids and hold down three part-time jobs with no benefits. And they don't really need artists making their job harder by creating an allure, an excitement, for behavior that is completely self-destructive. Artists tell you to turn off, but they really depend on you doing the opposite. And I say, Let's take them up on it. They'll change their tune because they need an audience. They need...
...China needs a new economic miracle - and the trajectory of the global economy may depend on whether one can be conjured up. China, theoretically, should be one of the locomotives that will eventually help pull the world out of its slump. That won't happen overnight; overhauling the world's fourth largest economy is going to take some time. For the moment, to tread water, Beijing is frantically throwing money at infrastructure projects, much as U.S. President-elect Barack Obama now promises to do in America. But ditch-digging on a national scale, Beijing knows, will not take China where...
...quickly a new story can be written may depend largely upon the Chinese people becoming a whole lot better at consuming more and saving less. But, while the authoritarian government continues to pull the strings in many parts of society, Beijing cannot simply order citizens to buy Gucci for the good of the country and the world. Chinese save much of what they earn because the government has yet to provide the web of social services available in other countries. China's national social security system and government health-insurance schemes are drastically underfunded, and moreover don't cover...
...effectiveness of Lamont’s position will largely depend on her rapport with Smith, said African-American studies Professor J. Lorand Matory, who is leaving for Duke University at the end of the year...
...banks and not the car companies?" asks Jerry Lelito, a General Motors plant manager for 23 years. "Those bankers make huge windfalls, and the executives walk away with golden parachutes. These are hardworking American workers who make up the industrial core in this country. So many other industries depend on the existence of the U.S. auto industry." Warren David adds that while the younger immigrant generations are not as directly affected (many have received better educations and went on to become lawyers, doctors, and other professionals) their occupations are still being indirectly - and heavily - hit. "Michigan's entire economy...