Word: dismissals
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...World Bank?backed dams in Africa. "We may have learned a little bit, but not enough to make things better for average people." The IRN's Pottinger says the dam lobby often labels concerned environmentalists - incorrectly - as antidevelopment. "Calling us anti-poor is a very easy way to dismiss our concerns," she says. "But all we're doing is looking for ways to help poor people that don't have so many destructive elements." Grey says that Westerners criticizing poor countries trying to develop are applying double standards: "Either those Western countries [and environmentalists against developing the Nile] are saying...
...designed to encourage small companies to take on staff by allowing them to fire new workers within two years without risking legal reprisals or severance costs. That's remarkably similar to the law Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin championed to stimulate youth employment by making young workers easier to dismiss - and look how that ended up. But as Villepin's proposal was shelved earlier this month, an independent agency monitoring the Borloo-sponsored measure reported it had generated over 400,000 new jobs since September. Great results - but they were not enough, or soon enough, to prevent last fall...
...There's also access to the media. At that time, newspapers had editorials calling for Stanton's resignation, but today people are on television shows and cable news and are able to express their views. It allows [the public] to really look at what they're saying and not dismiss it as grumblings...
...station Radio Maryja (pronounced Maria) has always blended the sacred world of faith with the profane arena of politics. Its archconservative commentators love to slag off the "evils" of the free market and the perils of joining Europe. But this month they acquired an opponent tough for them to dismiss. After one pundit declared that Jewish groups were "humiliating Poland internationally by demanding money" for property expropriated during World War II and likened their efforts to a "holocaust industry," the Vatican itself decided this was the last straw. It instructed the Polish Catholic church to prevent its station from mixing...
That doesn't mean you should dismiss Wall Street research out of hand. Much of what analysts produce is helpful, especially if what you seek is broad background on an industry. Occasionally, analyst conclusions are earth moving. Recent testimony in the trial of former Enron top dogs Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling revealed it was an analyst who first questioned the company's finances, prompting Skilling to fret aloud, "They...