Word: easier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...adds that meeting people from outside the B-School is a lot easier for men than for women. "There's a whole population of women (at Wellesley) who are sitting there and are interested in having men to meet," she says...
...permit an effective dollar devaluation, which would benefit trade far more than any other conceivable legislation. But it would require cuts in Government spending going well beyond any that Congress is preparing to enact this fall, and probably tax increases as well. Moving to limit imports is so much easier, but so much more costly in the long...
...many ways, the defensive strategy is appealing. It certainly would be easier. American executives and workers could relax, secure in the knowledge that thanks to protective tariffs and restrictive import rules they had to worry much less about foreign competition or losing their markets. That strategy, though, ignores the fact that competition is the driving force of Western economies. Joseph Schumpeter, the Austrian-born philosopher of capitalism, described how businesses compete and change in a process of "creative destruction." In Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (1942), he wrote that firms "incessantly revolutionized the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying...
...than 130,000 Americans are permanent residents of the capital; some 4,500 U.S. tourists were believed to have been in Mexico City at the time the quake struck. Many of the visitors tried to head home as quickly as possible. With communications and airline schedules disrupted, that was easier attempted than done...
...officials and thousands of volunteers pitched in to the agonizing task of seeking signs of life among the rubble and recovering the bodies of those who were beyond help. "It was a very human response," said one of the volunteers, a medical student named Guadalupe Ostos. "It makes things easier...