Word: empowerment
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Friedman, as much as anyone, stood athwart history and cried "Stop" as it seemed headed towards collectivism--only he did it with a masterly, genius-level grasp of mathematics, history and statistics. He proved, inasmuch as it can be proved, that free markets would not impoverish the poor but enrich...
“Tech transfer can empower you, and it has empowered me a lot,” he says.
The sectarian bloodbath will get worse. Iraq's Sunni-Shi'ite civil war has already claimed tens of thousands of lives and forced Sunnis and Shi'ites to abandon coexistence. This is tragic and certainly not what most Iraqi Shi'ites or Sunnis want. But once under way, civil wars...
While fusion voting and IRV both empower small, local parties and force campaigns to become issues-oriented, IRV has the added benefit of ensuring a majority vote in the end, giving the winner more credibility than he or she otherwise would have. Furthermore, IRV has proven its feasibility in practice...
Last winter, speedskater Joey Cheek was on top of the world.Years of training had finally paid off, as Cheek picked up two medals at the Olympic Games in Turin, Italy. And after he donated his winnings to Right to Play, an organization that uses sports as a tool for the...