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Bringing these assets into the formal sector would also automatically multiply both recorded GDP and tax revenues. In developing nations, the informal assets of the poor dwarf the valuations of domestic stock exchanges, government assets, and foreign direct investment by large multiples. Turning these assets into capital would unleash new potential for surging exponential growth...
...percent. Surveys by the Maryland-based Program on International Policy Attitudes and The Washington Post have indicated that Americans advocate, on average, spending at least five or ten percent of the federal budget on aid. Ten percent would be $223 billion; five percent, $111 billion. Both of these numbers dwarf the $10 billion we actually give in developmental aid, which is less than a quarter of the amount Bush requested in military budget increases...
...lampooned him wickedly in Kukly (The Puppets), its popular satirical show. Kukly presented a touchy Putin as a crazed shrink, or an offstage presence referred to as Gospod Bog (Lord God) or just G.B., a pun on his past as a KGB officer. Another caricature - "Little Zaches," a vicious dwarf who bewitched a city into regarding him as a wise ruler - particularly infuriated Putin and his camp. The ax fell in mid-2000, when Gusinsky was accused of embezzlement and arrested. He left the country and eventually was forced to sell his assets to Gazprom, the state-run natural...
...radioactive. Where are the women? Peter Jackson filled out Liv Tyler's role for the movies (it's much less prominent in Tolkien's version), but the Fellowship is still as much a boys' club as Augusta National. And whiter too. Don't let all the heartwarming Elf-Dwarf bonding between Legolas and Gimli fool you. The only people with dark skin in Middle-earth are the Orcs...
...destroy U.S. cities and government buildings, then how can America justify destroying theirs? It is immoral to rally in support of the bloodshed that a war on Iraq will cause. I feel sad for the people of Iraq, who live in fear of an imminent attack that will dwarf Sept. 11 in destruction and loss of life. GRANT LA HOOD Auckland, New Zealand...