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...stress-eating, is there anything to be done if you'd rather the market didn't take your marriage down with it? A lot of counselors suggest sitting with your spouse and putting your fears on the table. If partner A does not know the full lay of the dire financial land, partner B should map it out while partner A makes a robust attempt not to scream. Then figure out how to address your liquidity issues as a team. All this honesty might even work as foreplay, suggests New Jersey sex therapist Sandra Leiblum, but if not, she recommends...
...popular unrest when they cut subsidies or put on gas quotas," says Robert Johnston, Director of Energy for the Eurasia Group in Washington. For similar reasons, Venezuela President Hugo Chavez wants OPEC to cut production by about 1 million barrels a day, warning that his country would face dire economic problems if oil prices continue falling...
...Board will cause any meaningful change in its rules. Students who have gone before the Ad Board usually describe the process as intimidating and terrifying. Given that the rules barely allow students to act in their own defense, it is easy to understand why. The Ad Board is in dire need of complete structural reform from the ground up. Until this occurs, pray that you never get Ad Boarded—because if you do, you will probably be guilty before you even enter the room...
...Still, markets were more inclined to take heart in the international summit agreement Sarkozy had obtained from Bush. Despite that advance, questions remain how much the U.S. and its free-market fans will the more invasive regulatory approach that Europe seems to favor. Even as they face dire economic crisis, Americans are quicker than Continentals to distrust perceived market "socialism." Indeed, even Bush and Sarkozy seemed to clash Saturday in how each weighed the virtues of regulation against the liberty of markets...
...policy tool and the encouragement to “buy American” led to more jobs created for Americans, slightly better prices, and a strengthened American manufacturing industry.Though it’s debatable as to whether or not the United States’ current economic dilemma is as dire as it was in the 30s, it is conceivable that American Apparel can maintain some of its sales thanks to its homegrown quality. However, bearing in mind its stance on controversial immigration reform, American Apparel—along with Dov Charney—would be naïve to expect...