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...failure of those plans are unimaginable. Almost no one living in America now was an adult during the early 1930s. It is impossible to imagine how 13% or 14% unemployment would affect the modern economy, just as there is no way to suss out what a 50% drop in housing prices from the 2006 peaks would do. Some economists believe that these problems will drive the nation into a decade of economic stagnation, while others would like to see the boil lanced no matter how painful it may be. The second group wants to see the unimaginable after effects...
...wanna spend the time I have here doing something that makes my heart race.” Coming from most characters, this statement might sound heartfelt, if somewhat trite. In the context of this film, however, Troy simply sounds insane. Troy (Colin Hanks) is a young law student who drops out of school against his father’s wishes, having decided that writing is his true calling. When this dream doesn’t materialize immediately, he decides to accept the first job he can find and ends up becoming the road manager for Buck Howard, a self-important...
...those factors, so instead they spend their time arguing about what's on page 128." But we can't afford to keep failing our children. This month the National Center for Health Statistics reported that teen birthrates rose in 2007 for the second year, after a 15-year drop...
...Program, wrote in a December 2005 Crimson editorial that the endowment was nearly $100 million. IOP Director Bill P. Purcell said that he expected the endowment’s decline to match that of Harvard’s overall endowment. In December, President Drew G. Faust warned that this drop-off could reach 30 percent by the end of the fiscal year. Purcell said he was confident in the ability of the IOP to continue providing services to its students. “We feel very comfortable that we’ll be able to fund our internship and stipend...
...heavy army will be reduced, specifically cutting 200,000 of its 350,000 officers. "The structure of Russia's armed forces is totally abnormal," says Alexander Golts, an independent military analyst. "We have one officer for every two privates." The overall numbers of the armed forces will drop from 1.13 million to 1 million. The remaining soldiers, the reasoning goes, will have access to better and more up-to-date equipment. Supply and command problems were clearly evident in last August's Georgia war. There was a lack of coordination between air and ground forces as well as mismanagement...