Word: doned
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...doesn't even consistently measure what actually gets done. Did you pay a cleaning company to clean your floors? Congratulations, you've added to this year's numbers. Did you scrub them yourself? Sorry, you haven't. Buying eggs from a factory farm: a GDP boost. Raising chickens in your backyard: nope. Forty years ago, buying a VCR to watch a movie at home would have been a significant contribution. Today, picking up a DVD player adds almost nothing. But doesn't the more modern machine provide the better picture...
...against Tehran, Kabul or New Delhi's interests. The political paralysis in dealing with this remote, restive province is another sign, experts say, of the real power the military holds over the country's weak civilian government. "[Pakistani President Asif ]Zardari and his entourage understand what needs to be done," says Harrison. "But they have no ability to get the armed forces and the ISI to cooperate...
...should be put "on trial" like in the famous 1925 Scopes Monkey case, in which a Tennessee teacher was prosecuted for teaching evolution rather than creationism. The statement, by William Kovacs, the Chamber's vice president for policy, was later disowned by the Chamber, but the damage was already done...
...crazy or outside the mainstream," says David Chavern, the Chamber's COO. "We've been around for almost 100 years because we've done pretty good at figuring out what's needed for the business community to be successful and we are going to be around for another 100 years." (See the top 10 bankruptcies...
...Wire’ has done more to enhance our understanding of the systemic urban inequality that constrains the lives of the poor than any published study” Sociology Professor William J. Wilson said...